Bruichladdich 1984

Octomore 5 Year Old Edition 4.2 Comus

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who’s the peatiest of them all? We’re back in the peat wars, and the newest addition of Bruichladdich is this Octomore 4.2 “Comus”, rated at a whopping 167 ppm.As you know I’ve passed the “Bring all the peat you an to me” stage, many of whisky lovers go through at some time or other in their whisky journey, but I’m a big...

Score 89/100

Bruichladdich 15 Year Old 1st Edition

The First Edition of Bruichladdich 15 year old was a bit of a disappointment. The greatness of Laddie Ten had given me high hopes about every Bruichladdich I could stumble upon. As my scoring shows, Bruichladdich 15 yrs wasn't bad either. It was interesting but a bit too delicate in every way. Complex without character if that makes sense at...

Score 83/100

Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2004

Bruichladdich's plan with this bottle is to showcase terroir and provenance. All the "Chalice" barley used for this expression is grown a mile from the distillery, harvested in September 2004 and distilled in December. This experiment resulted in 6000 bottles, which are aged 6 years in oak. On the nose: Grass, various meadow plants...

Score 78/100

Bruichladdich 34 Year Old Legacy 6

After getting a comment on the last review I did on this bottling of Bruichladdich, I figured I might have to go back and maybe do it a bit more justice. Coming back upon my notes to review what I wrote last time I noticed at the very end I posted for myself a small annotation saying revisit. I completely forgot the last review was rushed being I...

Score 68/100