Royal Brackla 1976 33 Year Old Mackillop's

Royal Brackla Infrequent Flyers Royal Brackla 12 Year Old

A dual first for me. My first Royal Brackla and also my first bottle from the Infrequent Flyers range a fairly new independent bottler owned by Alistair Walker son of the famous (in whisky circles) Billy Walker of Glendronach, BenRiach and more recently Glenallachie. I'd normally review a whisky first without water and then comment on what it was...

Score 88/100

Royal Brackla 1991 16 Year Old

N.b.: This is a review of the 2009 bottling of the 1991 Royal Brackla from Gordon & MacPhail (the linked bottle is the 2006 bottling). I picked this up at a G&M tasting night a month or so ago. I decided to open it tonight and revisit what I remember to be a very nice expression. It turned out to be as nice, if not better than I remember....

Score 85/100

Royal Brackla 10 Year Old 2006 Highland Laird

Royal Brackla was founded in 1812 near Cawdor Castle – on the border between Highlands and Speyside. Cawdor Castle is also the backdrop for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but I digress. This 10 years old is from the stables of Bartel Rawlings, who bottled it at cask strength in their Highland Laird series. I already tried an nice Auchentoshan 1992, but...

Score 86/100

Royal Brackla 13 Year Old 2000 Blackadder Raw Cask

The Brackla distillery – founded by Captain William Fraser of Brackla in 1812 – can be found close to Cawdor Castle, famous from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In 1835 it got a royal warrant from King William IV and since then they call themselves Royal Brackla. I am trying a rather young malt from 2000, bottled by Robin Tucek and his team in 2014 in...

Score 83/100