Product description
Brackla Distillery, built by Captain William Fraser in 1812, is the first Scottish distillery to obtain a Royal Warrant.
King William IV seems to have been so fond of Brackla whisky that in 1835 he granted Fraser permission to use the prefix "Royal" (a privilege renewed by Queen Victoria in the 1850s). Today, the distillery is owned by John Dewar & Sons, part of the Bacardi group since 1998, and produces around 4 million litres of distillate a year, most of which is "consumed" by Dewar's blends. In 2015, Bacardi introduced the Last Great Malts series, which included three versions of the Royal Brackla single malt. The 16-year-old presented here spent its final maturation period in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks.
Aroma : fruity with floral tones, apricots, ripe apples, bananas, traces of hay, breakfast cereals, crème brûlée, notes of cinnamon and vanilla.
Taste: quite strong sherry tones, candied orange peel, cherries, apricots, delicate herbal notes, cinnamon, almonds, traces of tobacco and oak.
Finish: medium long, spicy, with notes of vanilla and pleasant oak bitterness.