Royal Brackla 1991 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Royal Brackla 2001/2009 Gordon & MacPhail:

Shape matters, especially when it comes to the glass you’re using while enjoying your daily dram or scribbling notes down like me. Today's review is a bit different, as part of a little experiment, I’ll try to explain in my own words, how much different the experience is between using a regular tumbler or a tulip-shaped Glencairn. One would expect...

Score 83/100

Royal Brackla 12 Year Old 2006 The Whisky Agency for Taiwan

Close to Cawdor Castle – famous from Shakespeare’s Macbeth – lies the Brackla distillery, founded By Captain William Fraser of Brackla in 1812. Since 1835 she calls herself Royal Brackla after receiving a royal warrant from King William IV. This single cask from 2006 was selected by my Taiwanese friend Joseph Wang and sports the very lovely WeiWei...

Score 84/100

Royal Brackla 55.24 Cherry pie moonshine

This was left over from my birthday party back in May by my good friend Igor Kossov. It was distilled Feb 21 1994 and put into a 2nd fill bourbon hogshead; 20 years later it filled 189 bottles. The colour is a light-to-medium caramel. On the nose a fruity sweetness comes first: strawberries, peaches and kumquats. Behind that, however, is an...

Score 86/100

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