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Key Facts About This Single Malt Scotch
Bottler:
Founders: Jack Breslin and Dana de Vos
Release: Once In A Lifetime
Distillery: Bruichladdich
Region: Islay, Scotland
Age: 16 years
Distilled: May 2007
Bottled: November 2023
Cask Type: Single Rivesaltes cask
Cask Ref: UC027
Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength at 61.0%
Outturn: 282 Bottles
Bottle Size: 700ml
Bottled: Natural colour and non chill filtered
Bruichladdich 16 Year Old Tasting Notes
Nose: Milk chocolate, raisins, dessert wine, slight ocean salt and maybe a touch of lemon.
Palate: The palate starts bright and zingy. A burst of ripe berries mellow to the delicate Rivesaltes dessert wine influence. This is a mature and rounded sweetness with hints of Thornton's special toffee, lemon and leather.
Finish: The intricate dessert wine eventually gives way to a spicy oak with a myriad of mellow spices.
About Once In A Lifetime
This is an amazingly rare and amazingly delicious cask that Jack and Dana at Uncharted Whisky Co have been searching for for a very long time.
The spirit is un-peated Bruichladdich, the most popular of the many different distillates the distillery have created over the years. The spirit when newly made has bags of flavour and is already delicious when bottled as a young whisky. Now given 16 years to mature in exceptional ex-Rivesaltes wood, we now have a really special whisky on our hands.
There was a time when Bruichladdich distillery readily sold casks to whisky lovers and the indy whisky world, however, that is now a by-gone era. What this means is that with each passing year, those independently owned casks are dwindling either through bottling or through the big, burly Islay angels taking their share.
When Jack and Dana founded Uncharted, they set out to find a Bruichladdich cask they would be happy to bottle. It’s taken 3 and a half years, but here it is. While Jack and Dana sincerely hope this won’t be the last to grace our glasses, but it might just be Once In A Lifetime.
Un-filtered. Natural colour. Cask Strength. Individually number by hand.
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