Brora 30 Years Limited Edition 2009 8th Special Release Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky Cask Strength 53.2% Vol. - a rare and exceptional Brora Highland Single Malt from the old Brora distillery!
The eighth official bottling of a 30-year-old Brora Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky by Diageo for the 8th Annual Special Release in 2009, and a rare masterpiece from the legendary old Scottish distillery Brora. This rare and iconic 30 years Brora Highland Single Malt Whisky was bottled in 2009 without the addition of colouring or chill filtration at natural cask strength 53.2% vol. in a limited edition of 2,652 individually numbered bottles. The 30 years Brora Limited Edition 2009 8th Annual Special Release Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky is less impetuous than the extremely peaty bottlings of the early 1970s, but all the more elegant, fruity and complex.
On the nose, the old 30-year-old Brora Highland Single Malt reveals an alluring blend of ripe citrus fruits - including lemon, sweet mandarin and juicy peach - alongside notes of sea salt, vanilla, aged oak, sweet peat smoke and the famous Brora waxy character, with hints of beeswax and paraffin. The flavour is incredibly creamy, oily and full-bodied, with a brilliant, syrupy sweetness of brown sugar, candied ginger, white pepper, zesty lemon zest, liquorice and mild peat smoke. The finish is long and lingering, salty, warming and perfectly balanced with dry wood, ashy coastal smoke, crystallised ginger and a surprisingly elegant, floral tea note - an absolutely impressive and almost iconic Brora Single Malt Scotch Whisky!
This exceptional and aged 30-year-old Brora Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky was matured in American bourbon and European sherry casks dating from the late 1970s; it is of outstanding quality and was awarded 91 points by Serge Valentin and Angus MacRaid on Whiskyfun - a dramatic, unforgettable tribute to the art of Scottish distilling in the late 1970s. A whisky that combines the wild spirit of the Scottish coast with the absolute perfection of three decades of cask maturation.
A magnificent and exquisite 30-year-old Brora Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky from the Diageo Annual Special Release 2009 bottling series - a truly special piece of world-class liquid whisky history from the historic Brora distillery, and an exquisite highlight for connoisseurs, discerning whisky collectors and lovers of fine, old Scotch whiskies, which is now very hard to find!
Brora was a whisky distillery in Brora, in the stormy Northern Highlands of Scotland on the rugged coast of Sutherland, and is renowned for its waxy, coastal and slightly earthy character, which is unrivalled in today s whisky landscape. The distillery was built in 1819 as Clynelish distillery for political reasons by George Granville Levison-Gower, the second Marquis of Stafford and later Duke of Sutherland. The aim was to deprive black burners in the course of the Highland clearances the basis of their business and to move them to resettle. In the first decades of existence, the history of the distillery by numerous tenants change is marked. Only George Lawson led the distillery from 1846 across a longer period. 1896 the distillery was in equal parts to the Blender James Ainslie and Co of Glasgow and John Risk, who also ran the banker distillery in Banknock, sold. In 1925 the operation became the property of the Distillers Company Ltd. (DCL) on and belonged from 1930 to Scottish Malt Distillers (SMD). Between 1931 and 1939 the distillery was closed. 1967 the distillery should be replaced by the newly built Clynelish distillery. Since the production of the required for blending highly peated whisky on Islay faltered due to weather conditions at that time, now as Clynelish A designated distillery and Clynelish B were operated initially called new operating parallel, was being carried out the production heavily peated whiskys in Clynelish A , Later Clynelish A was renamed Brora Clynelish and B in Clynelish. The Brora distillery still operating until 1983, a year in which to Banff, Dallas Dhu, Glen Mhor, Glenlochy, Glenugie, Northport and St. Magdalene seven other distilleries were still closed. Brora Single Malts are now rarely available, especially old bottlings from the Rare Malts Selection are considered rare whiskys.
After an extensive restoration, the Brora distillery was reopened in May 2021 and is now producing whisky again with the aim of restoring the original character of the whisky from before the closure.
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Northern Highlands
- Vintage: 1970s
- Age: 30 years old
- Year bottled: 2009 - 8th Special Release
- Cask Wood Type: Bourbon and Sherry Casks
- Alcohol ABV% 53.2 - Cask Strength
- Bottling Series: 30 Years Diageo 8th Special Releases Limited 2009 Bottling
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / not chill filtered
- Packaging original boxed - card tube (tube with traces, cover rusty)
- Producer/Importer: Brora Distillery, Brora, Sutherland, KW9 6LR, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, one of 2.652 bottles - unique old masterpiece-bottling and very rare collector s whisky!
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