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PEAT ISLAY SINGLE MALT
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note Producer BRUICHLADDICH
Bright light orange amber colour. Intense, slightly sweet, caramel driven, gently smoky, cooked plum-apple nose. Intense, medium-full bodied, fairly extracty and yet harmonious, spicy, faintly sweet, caramel-plum flavours with a lingering, slightly bitter finish. Not as impressive as when it last appeared in Vintages (**+/***) on April 17, 2010 at $74.95 and was Recommended/Best Buy. CSPC 165324
Type Spirit - Scotch Whisky
Agent Fre Hou
Country Scotland
Region
Rating **+(89 points)
Very Peppery & Peaty
LCBO Note Status Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
TASTING NOTE: ‘Peat’ has been created to showcase the unique, heavily peated Bruichladdich style, where the heavier sea iodine flavours that can dominate other Islay peated whiskies is subdued and made more elegant by the distillery’s Victorian long-necked stills. The lively, zesty, lemony ‘core’ characteristics of Bruichladdich interact nicely with powerful, sweet peat notes on the nose. The palate yields a lovely balance of sweet, spicy pears and vanilla with peat which lacks the medicinal notes usually associated with Islay ...Score - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5). (Gavin D. Smith & Tom Cannavan, www.whisky-pages.com, Undated) Price $ 74.95
Bottle Size 700 mL
Tasting Date vintages release - March 5, 2011
Cases bought 210 (6 bottles per case)

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