Brora

Brora 30 Year Old, American Oak Refill Cask, 4th Release, 2005, 56.3%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 53
Average Score
Avg 88
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Description

Built in 1819 and originally named Clynelish, Brora is one of Scotland's Highland Clearance Distilleries. Built by the Duke of Sutherland as part of his new business enterprise, which brutally evicted some 15000 farmers from their homes as part of a cruel economic experiment that was happening all over the Highlands. Despite this somewhat inauspicious birth, the distillery eventually found its fee. This is the fourth release in Diageo's Special Releases series.

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Cask type
American Oak Refill Cask
Bottling
Official Bottling
Peated
Heavily Peated
Single cask
No
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
N.A
Batch
4th Release
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
N.A
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
3000
Has box
Yes
Closure
Natural cork stopper
Presentation
Cardboard Tube
Series highlights
Diageo Special Releases 2005
Historical context
Brora distillery was founded in 1819, renamed Brora in 1975, and mothballed in 1983. It reopened in 2021.
Special release
Special Release
Allocation
N.A
Nose
Buttery, oily, resin, damp hay, soft tar, vanilla fudge, choc caramel, cinnamon and walnut muffin, canned pears, marmalade and lime peel, vanilla scented candles, beeswax, earthy mushrooms, fertile soil and rotting leaves, burning cedar splints and barnyard-like Cuban tobacco, rock salt and minerals, earthy dried herbs, hint of sulphur, light oak spice, robust and maritime, salmon smokery, seaweed, tar, waxed oilskins, salty-smooth food notes of melted butter and dried Serrano ham, dry orange peel and espresso coffee, peat, smoke, iodine, leather, rubber bands, Lapsang Souchong tea, buttery peat, creme caramel, citrus, heathery smoke, lanolin, slightly butyric, char, malt, orchard fruit, honey, graham, citrus peels and brittle.
Palate
Sweet, malty, heather, oats, smoke, wood ash, creamy and oily, buttered salty popcorn, fried banana and jackfruit chips, peppery oak and leather, liquorice, marmalade sweetness and citrus tang, chilli flakes and smoked paprika, cured meats, peat and wood smoke, mushroom earthiness, Robusta coffee with condensed milk, rubbery and tarry, spices, iodine, apricot, char, black tea, minerality.
Finish
Dark chocolate, malt, dry smoke, star anise and sweet basil, bitter walnuts, wax, faint earthy peat, Cuban tobacco notes, Spanish cedar, BBQ smokiness, a bit meaty, sulphury notes, long, savoury and moreish, fragrant, pinch of white pepper, spices, oil.
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