Bruichladdich 21 Year Old Penny Black Moon Import

Bruichladdich PHD 135 Feis 2016

If you're into dancing and drinking whisky at the same time then I highly recommend visiting Bruichladdich's open day during the Islay Whisky Festival. Food trucks. Multiple bars. Live band. And over 300 dancing people at any given time. It's an atmosphere hard to beat. Everyone's having the time of their life. Including us as we strolled in...

Score 83/100

Bruichladdich The Organic Multi Vintage

Notes from a phone... On opening, citrus, vanilla, Buttercup Then later, vanilla ice cream, creme brulee, sunflower seeds, faint whiffs of engine oil Body: vegetable matter, white pepper and button mushrooms, honeyed peat, peat, peat Finish: peaty, raisins, liquorice (on the burp too) Overall: warming, islay, but not overpowering. smooth but with...

Score 83/100

Bruichladdich Peat

This is certainly one peaty whisky. Put your nose in the glass and you are met with boggy, mossy peat, as well as leafy/papery smoke and a light mothball sweetness. Yet for all that peat it comes across soft on the nose. It is much spicier in the mouth, though water or ice softens it. Very peaty as it spreads across the tongue. Lacks the ashen...

Score 81/100

Octomore 5 Year Old Edition 4.2 Comus

Octomore is known for being the most heavily peated whisky in the world. It is not a distillery (it used to be one, though), but a recipe that is distilled and bottled by Bruichladdich in long, thin black bottles. This Ochadamh-mor matured for 5 years on American oak and was bottled at cask strength. It has a ppm of 167. While the peat is...

Score 86/100