Brora "Brorageddon" 1972 Old Malt Cask for PLOWED
Added on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:56 PM
  Bottler: Douglas Laing
  Age: 30 yrs Type: Scotch
  Vintage: 1972 Subtype: Single Malt
  ABV: 50.80 % Region: Highland
  Price: N/A Availability: Collectors Only
Distilled March 1972       Bottled February 2003       Cask 983       201 Bottles
For the PLOWED Society
Member Ratings and Notes
Chris
 
N: Molasses, meaty BBQ, plum sauce, iodine, chocolate, and some peat still managing to emerge from that massive nose.   Deep sherry, very rich.
P: A thing unto itself, thick and syrupy, a peat n' sherry concoction melded together into something unique, rare, and absurdly good.  Big big big.
F: Lingers on the BBQ.  Bacon.
(And thanks Alan!)   <-- Notify the Serge Copycat Police!
Andy
 

n:  Caramel

 

p:  Lightly toasted lavendar.  Sweetened ash finish. 

Sku
 
The nose on this starts with a huge bang of fruity sherry flavors with fig and other fruit.  Massive complexity.  The palate is huge and beautiful with raisins and other dried fruit with mild peat in the background.  And peat grows into the finish in which it dances with the sherry. 

This was the eighth malt tasted in a Clynelish/Brora tasting and it just blew away the competition.  It's got big fruit and sherry flavors but tinges of peat and smoke; the interplay makes it extremely complex and enjoyable.  I want to be drinking it RIGHT NOW! 
Adam
 

The key to this whisky is its extreme drinkability despite the massive, massive flavors in here... not that huge flavors don't make something drinkable, but I think you know what I mean. The sherry is almost overpowering, and without the smokey aspects it would approach not-dimensional... but the phenols and other subtleties rocket this into A-range. Complexities especially reveal themselves upon lengthier drinking (as they always do), and this gets more excellent with more to say on every sip. Mostly a big sherry number with restrained smoke, big toffee, and maple-syrup candy -- particularly that maple-syrup candy is big in the finish.

 

We rarely drain a bottle start-to-finish at a meeting, and the fact that this one never stood a chance says a lot.  A/A- 

Dave
 

Unmistakable A.  It has already been said above so I have little to add.  So much of what everyone else describes I agree with.  There are few whiskies that I think would work really well with food, but this makes me want to try it with a rare rib-eye....great stuff.

 

Re-taste for PLOWED vertical 4/19/2013

More of the same.  My winner of the PLOWED bottles.  This is simply big, bold whisky and it has bits of everything I love.  Deep, dark complexity and waxy, meaty flavors.  The sherry is perfectly balanced and makes a great sweetness character that works so well. Solid "A"

Fuji
 

Noses of peat, sherry and resinous wood. The sherry fruits come in form of dark ripe fruit: figs, grapes, blue berry, black berry, and strawberry. It wonderfully compliments the dark smoky camphor aspects. Added depth from black coffee, wet clay and wax. An enveloping deliciously balanced nose. Sticky oily texture that coats the mouth and palate. Starts with camphor smoke and leads way into dark coffee/ tea and black licorice. Peat, nougat, and fudge along with bright tangy fruit emerge in the midpalate: raspberry, cherry and black berry. Finishes with lingering waxy bitterness of grapefruit skin and dark coffee.

 

Retaste 2019: A+

Tim
 

N: So much going on. Plenty of fig, dense syrupy notes. Extremely dark, tons of dark fruity sherry-derived notes. A little clay. 

 

P: Wow. Tons of wod (in a great way), beautifully smoky but not overpowering; syrupy, figgy, almost cola-like quality. White pepper and just all kinds of imaginable sherry influence, without being oversherried and making you wonder why you're not just drinking some Valdespino Solera 1842.

 

F: Light bacony smoke, faint rubber, tons of dark fruity notes. As it dries, it gives a dried apple quality.

 

Immensely complex; dense and fantastic.

 

A-/A 

Kevin
 

This is a case where the mysterious syrupy cola, almost scary darkness color lives up to it's shade by presenting a rich, complex and fulfilling nectar.  

 

I barely have to lift the glass to my nose to get a whiff of this other-worldly, bold flavor. Hard to describe, because of so much going on. Lots of deep dark fruits like black cherry and blackberry, but with, yes, peat and bbq hints. It's an odd thing when you smell something and the first thought that comes to mind is "chewy". Haven't even tasted it! 

 

Palate is rich with figs, ginger snaps, raisins. It's thick and glorious (so my notes tell me, ha), but a tad one dimensional.

 

The finish cuts me off like a bartender at 1:30am in LA. Sad.  

Dan
 
Absolutely spectacular rich cola color. The nose is not as complex as some of the other PLOWED bottlings, but it has things I really like with a very interesting wood and sherry combination. On the tongue it is as rich as the color and nose would indicate. What was on the nose expands in the mouth to a forest of different types of woods with my whole spice cabinet dumped in. The finish -- wow, just decadent. [4/19/13]
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