Bruichladdich First Growth Cuvee B: Pauillac Chateau Latour 16 Year

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

Octomore Orpheus 5 Year Old Edition 2.2

I've been looking forward to trying this Drinks by the Dram bottle from Master of Malt which I picked up, and having found my recent tastings bereft of peat I figured why not try to redress the balance with a dip into Octomore country. Good lord. With only the PC6 as my yardstick I dove in for a sniff. "Toffee, but threatening". Giving...

Score 90/100

Bruichladdich Peat

Nose: youthfulness leads to a bit of an isopropyl alcohol, a bit astringent, soft vanilla, fresh fruit come across, followed by a ripe manure scent, peat is apparent but soft, non-medicinal (nothing like a Laphroaig or Ardbeg) Body: much like the Penderyn I just reviewed, the Peat is clearly a younger whisky, although it would be hard to tell by...

Score 80/100

Bruichladdich Octomore 7.2

Octomore series have the highest peat levels – 208 ppm for this particular expression – in the market compared to more popular ‘Heavily Peated’ expressions from Ardbeg and Laphroaig whereas the peat levels remain around 40 -50 ppm. Jim McEwan, Ex-Head Distiller, created this series as a retaliation to those who dismissed Bruichladdich’s lack of...

Score 82/100