Bruichladdich 14 Year Old Links VI K Club

Bruichladdich 2001 7 Year Old Resurrection

Many of you who know the history of this distinctive distillery know that it closed down in 1994, seemingly for good, by Whyte & Mackey, who had owned it since the 1970s. It re-opened in 2000 (let by a private consortium) and, on Oct 23 2001 (as dated on the bottle, the first new make spilled forth. Seven years later, here it is. It is one...

Score 85/100

Bruichladdich 3D Moine Mhor 2nd Edition

I should confess a love of the Bruichladdich 3D bottling and have two versions currently open and a 3D infinity awaiting a special occasion. I assume the Port Charlotte series carry on this line of development in the current rebranding of this distilleries products(?) Suffice to say I’m too tight to spring for an Octomore, yet... The lightness of...

Score 91/100

Bruichladdich 28 Year Old 1991 SMWS 23.76

I was recently a guest at the whisky festival in Toulouse and ran into my French companion Xavier who pressed this sample into my hand. It contains a 28-year-old Laddie that was bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society for Feis Ile 2020. It spent no less than 28 long years in a cask. Hello, there! What a divine nose. A bit old school. Tropical...

Score 89/100

Bruichladdich 2003 7 yo Port Matured Islay

This was originally marketed in Ontario as the Jim McEwan Special Edition (but must have failed to sell). Slightly sweet nose, redolent of red wine (go figure), coffee and caramel. Mild and light. Flavours at first taste are very different. Real mish-mash of things come to the fore finishing with some camphor and a sharp alcohol burn. This is some...

Score 64/100