Bruichladdich Release: Bourbon 16

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Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:28 pm

Bruichladdich has released an all American Classic with French royal family and a revolutionary war connections - The Bourbon 16 which is forecast to run until 2011. It replaces the Bruichladdich Fifteen year old bottling.

New Bourbon laws, when US Prohibition ended in 1933, stated casks must be used just once before being sold off.

Today redundant Bourbon barrels represent about 97% of casks used for maturing Scotch whisky. Their influence on Scotch is enormous. These casks are made from Quercus Alba, white oak, also known as American Oak from the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Kentucky.

Tyloses, or celluar growths, make this oak more water-tight meaning it can be machine-worked, use thinner staves, reducing coopering costs.

“Scotch and American whiskies are historically linked. It’s a symbiotic cycle: we gave them distilling, so they can sell us cheap casks.”

Immigrant Scots started distilling in the US shortly after the American War of Independence in a newly established (1785) county - Bourbon.

It was called Bourbon in homage to the French royal family, in recognition of their help in the battle against the English.

Just four years later the French Revolution started. America’s national spirit was nearly called Napoleon.

Recommended retail price is +/- £45 or $99
Strength: 46%
Source: My inbox (Mark Reynier).

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Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:36 am

Jim McEwan’s Tasting Notes

Bruichladdich 16 Year Old


Original cask: Bourbon
Ace cask: No Ace

Colour

Bright Golden Sunlight.

Body

Medium weight, strong and robust. A spirit that is packed with vitality and flavour bursting from the glass anxious to please.

Nose /Palate

The aromas of unpeated crisp malted barley explode from the glass being slipstreamed by the freshest fruit notes of cantaloupe, plump ripe grapes, guava and persimmon. It’s the classic Bruichladdich style with a sherbet fizz and nougat sweetness which in turn is balanced by the strong mellow oaky flavours from the 1st time filled hogsheads which add lashings of Butterscotch, fudge and bonbon to bring completion to this stylish, elegant and confidant single malt.

This is as easy as it gets with single malt. Its in top condition, there is no colouring and no chill-filtration. Its unpeated, its flawless, its made at the last traditional distillery on Islay by people, yes, real people with a history of distilling stretching back centuries. This is how whisky should be judged – on quality and not on marketing nonsense that insults the malt drinker’s intelligence.
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