Bruichladdich Blacker, Redder and Golder Still Bundle
A bundle of 3 rare, Limited Edition releases from Bruichladdich distillery, matured for more than 2 decades and bottled at cask strength. All 3 releases have been signed by Jim McEwan.
Bundle includes 3 drams 700ml each:
– Blacker Still – Distilled in 1986, aged for 20 years and bottled in 2006 at cask strength. It was matured over two decades in sherry casks in a traditional, earthen floor warehouse.
Only 2,840 bottles released. ABV 50.7%.
   Nose:   Great dried fruit mix, especially prunes and raisins, a little vanilla and cotton candy, seaweed.
   Taste:   Nut, wood, salt, dry, a little lake, creamy, light fruit.
   Finish:   Very long, wood and a lot of salt.
– Redder Still – Distilled in 1984, aged for 22 years, bottled in 2007 at cask strength. It was matured in first-fill American oak casks and finished in Lafleur’s premium, flavour-rich French Troncais oak casks.
Only 4,080 bottles released. ABV 50.4%.
   Nose:   Heather, seaweed, some prunes and raisins, light bourbon notes, some orange, sugar.
   Taste:   Pine, resin, wax, raspberry, salt, some algae, salt, oily.
   Finish:   Long, raspberry, resin, nut.
– Golder Still – Distilled in 1984, aged for 23 years and bottled in 2008 at cask strength. It was matured in unusual, hand-made squat American bourbon hogsheads – experimental “dumpy” casks that American coopers flirted with briefly in the eighties.
Only 4,866 bottles released. ABV 51%.
   Nose:   Vanilla heavy, lemon, malty, cream, hay, cinnamon.
   Taste:   Vanilla, fresh vanilla bean, perfectly integrated spices, oak, sweetness.
   Finish:   A warm oak and spice finish, medium-long.
Note: Products come from a private collection, minor markings are inevitable and collectors should have reasonable expectations in this regard.
