Bruichladdich reviews

The second miniature of my Tasting Pack is the Bruichladdich Rocks, the 2008 version.The nose of the Rocks is fairly sweet without really being sweet. You follow? I get some apricots and vanilla and…

Bruichladdich from the past. Well, a few years at least. That’s when I bought a set of three miniatures, but so far I did not get round to tasting them. I’ll make time now. I will start with this Waves…

This sample comes from my lovely girlfriend Pamela Singh, from a bottle she got for Christmas (hmmmm.....wonder who gave it to her?) I think that bottle was opened early January.As you may know, Octomore…

Next up is the First Edition of the Bruichladdich 10 Year Old. Note that this is not the current bottle design, but a slightly older one (but distilled no earlier than December 2000 when the distillery…

Rich deep smooth sweet red fruit oily arrival develops a thick herbal earthy middle followed by slow red fruit loaded mouth coating finish.

I saw this at the local liquor store for $45. Compared to other stores it was a great bargain, so I jumped on it. The whisky has been decanted for three days and the bottle opened for two weeks. At 50%…

The peat bombs that Bruichladdich markets under the name Octormore are usually quite fruity and quaffable. This Ochdamh Mor is 5 years old and was released in 2013. The peat level is 167 ppm, but that…

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory is always bottled without chill filtration (of course) and at a drinking strength of 46% (oh, no!). Signatory married two casks to offer this release of 673…

Warm slow oily thick mouth coating creamy vegetal arrival steady rich spicy middle develops a iodine and sweet malt long slow finish.

This is what the Bruichladdich website describes this bottling as. What does that mean? For that matter, what do any of the overtly-descriptive tasting notes mean on their site, anyway? I've mentioned…