Brora 1981 28 Year Old Old Rare Platinum Sherry Cask Douglas Laing Platinum Selection

Brora 32 Year Old 10th Release bottled 2011

When I hosted a tasting at a local retailer last summer, the sympathetic owner gave me a 10cl sample of this stuff: the Bora 32 Year Old. It is a very expensive, but highly coveted bottle, this 10th Release. I was very happy with it and tasted it head-to-head with the other two yearly Brora. The nose is rather closed. It needs time. If you indulge...

Score 91/100

Brora 19 Year Old 1982 Silver Seal

Brora is almost legendary, rivaled for cult status only by Port Ellen. So I feel privileged to put two Brora samples H2H today. I will start with this rather pale 19 Year Old Brora, that was bottled by Silver Seal in 2001. The nose is very light with hardly any smoke and mostly nuts, prunes and spring flowers. No smoke nor oak. I would never have...

Score 86/100

Brora 1977 35 Year Old 12th Release bottled 2013

I have had the pleasure of tasting the official releases from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. Each and every one of them were absolutely fabulous with the 6th Release from 2006 as overall best. It will not surprise you that I am very much looking forward to trying this 12th Release from 2013 (and that has nothing to do with the fact that it was...

Score 94/100

Brora 40 Year Old 1978 - 200th Anniversary

Brora, having been founded in 1819, celebrates its 200th anniversary. In style, mind you, and even that is an understatement. They released 1819 bottles of a Brora 40 Year Old 1978 in a box that will blow you away… if the price tag of 4.600 has done that first. Mouthwatering, but just unbelievably expensive. It is – together with the Port Ellen 39...

Score 92/100