Bruichladdich, 10 years old

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Bruichladdich, 10 years old

The 9th release from Dramfool is a 10 year old Bruichladdich matured in a bourbon barrel. A classic nice clean untainted example of a bourbon-matured Bruichladdich.

Distilled on 25th April 2007 it matured in Bourbon barrel #657 until bottled on 12th October 2017 at aged 10 years. Bottled un-chill filtered at cask strength 62.2% it yielded 258 bottles.

Tasting Notes:

Nose neat: Icing sugar, leather, blackcurrant, Horlicks and a faint hint of Elastoplast.

Taste neat: Sweet and malty (Horlicks) with a slight fruitiness - blackcurrant and gooseberry. Fizzy on the tongue with the merest hint of something medicinal and smoky.

Nose Diluted: Perfumed sweets (not Parma Violets!), vanilla, brown sugar and slightly dusty.

Taste diluted: Sweet and malty with a big mouthful of mixed fruity boiled sweets. Again tiny threads of smoke and Germolene barely make their presence known. Overall, very gentle, sweet and fruity with vanilla and malt undertones.

David & George