Bruichladdich Bere Barley 2012 / 50%/ 0.7l
- Bere Barley is a six-row heritage variety that has long since been forgotten from the modern world of standardized whisky making.
Product description
Bere is an ancient, six-row variety of barley that has long been unused in whisky production.
It most likely arrived in Scotland around 1,000 years ago, brought by the Vikings. Bere is not the easiest variety to grow, and its yields are brutally low, around 50% of those of the next generation of high-yielding varieties. Bruichladdich Distillery began experimenting with Bere barley in 2006. The whisky presented here was distilled in 2012 from barley harvested the previous year from five Orkney farms – Weyland, Watersfield, Quoyberstane, Muddisdale and Westermill – and bottled in 2022 at 50% abv after around 10 years of maturation in bourbon barrels.
Aroma: fruity-floral, blossoming apple tree, green apples, gooseberries, lime jam, rhubarb pie, bread crust, notes of hay, mint and toasted oak.
Taste : vanilla cream, brown sugar, peaches, apricots, quince jelly, stewed apples, coconut, marzipan, a pinch of spices and a subtle bitterness of oak.
Finish: quite long, with notes of vanilla, milk chocolate, praline, apricot jam, a pinch of white pepper and oak.