Brora 29 Years Old & Rare The Platinum Selection 51% 1972

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Serge Valentin (93)

by Angus McRaild:

Colour: gold. Nose: if you could peat smoke some camphor in a kiln… that familiar and pretty sublime mix of oily sheep wool, putty, gelatinous peat smoke, waxed canvass, medical vapour rubs and many wee flinty and brighter mineral tones jangling in the background. Mineral salts, beach foam, distant farmyard, putty, iodine. Really, it's the complexity that gets me every time with these early 70s Broras. With water: sandalwood and a more coastal accented aroma that includes ramen broth with seaweed, beach sand, coastal flowers and then a more assertive farmyard note. Mouth: feels light on arrival but the oiliness of the distillate and the peat smoke is wonderfully palpable. There's an encroaching herbaceous quality that rises gently in the background, herbal toothpaste and herbal smoke, medicines, tar extract, lemon infused olive oil, umami broth and bouillon. It's not the most showstopping 1972 Brora, but it possesses an easiness and a directness of flavour that is utterly charming and luminously pleasurable. With water: sharper, saltier, fresher, more coastal and this sense of youthfulness. Dried herbs, heather flowers, bitter ales, miso, tar, hessian and camphor again. Just totally beautiful really. Finish: long, the smoke is rather dense and quilted but not at all harsh, everything is very silky, perfectly balanced and - dare I say it - smooth. Briny and smoked olive oil notes in the aftertaste. Comments: At times you might think this one was fragile but it always comes back and re-asserts itself in new ways. Another sublime and utterly distinctive 1972 Brora.

BOW (93)

This is an old vintage bottle and the closure may have deteriorated. We have added parafilm to keep this bottle in top notch condition