Bruichladdich 1990 Celebration of the Cask Carn Mor

Bruichladdich 21 Year Old 1992 Signatory

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 bottles. This Bruichladdich from 1992 is a pale sunlight. You would not be amiss when you call this nose quite fresh. Some lime and lots of...

Score 85/100

Bruichladdich 17 Year Old Rum Cask

Colour is pretty light for what is expected to be a very dark Guyanese rum cask. Nose is very rich and sweet. Reminds of sugar cane honey from Madeira or mead. Fairly rich, and coating as it is swallowed. Quite spicy from the oak it spent most of its life in and not much affect left from the scotch. Most of the rum affect is left in the nose and...

Score 77/100

Octomore Orpheus 5 Year Old Edition 2.2

Bruichladdich's Octomore Orpheus 2.2 was finished using Chateau Petrus wine casks. The phenol count is 140 ppm. The whisky is 5 years old. 15,000 bottles were released in 2010. The reviewed bottle has been open for 5 months, and is 50% full This review is in a non-time-sequential format (SQVH). For further reference on this format see my review...

Score 97/100

Bruichladdich 10 Year Old bottled 2011

So, here comes the post about the much awaited Laddie 10. The first bottling of a 10 year old distilled after the distillery was “resurrected” so to speak. I was really keen on trying it and got a bottle even before i sampled it, seeing raving reviews from Serge(whiskyfun), and others. Today I’ve spotted another enthusiastic review by John Hansell...

Score 84/100