BRUICHLADDICH BERE BARLEY 2010
Bruichladdich bere barley 2010
50% | 0,7L
Bere is an ancient, six-row variety of barley, not used in whisky production for a long time. It most likely arrived in Scotland about 1,000 years ago brought by the Vikings.
Bere is not the easiest variety to grow, and it also gives brutally low yields, about 50% of what the high-yielding new generation varieties provide.
Bruichladdich Distillery began experimenting with Bere barley in 2006. The whisky presented here was distilled in 2010 from barley harvested a year earlier from five farms in Orkney - Weyland, Watersfield, Quoyberstane, Norfield and Richmond - and bottled at 50% alcohol after an approximate 9-year maturation in bourbon barrels.
Aroma
malt and fruit, oatmeal, ripe pears and peaches, lemon jam, vanilla, honey, toffee, coconut shavings, golden syrup, traces of eucalyptus and mint
TASTE
rich, honeyed breakfast cereal, a slice of wholemeal with butter, vanilla, toffee, milk chocolate, peaches, nectarines and quite strong oak notes
FINISH
quite long, with notes of ripe apples, pears and peaches, vanilla, milk chocolate, a pinch of white pepper and oak