Code
Distillery
Royal Brackla
Name
New Shoes
Producer
SMWS
Region
Highland
Age
14 years
ABV
55.1%
Bottler Type
Independent
Category
Scotch
Flavor Profile
Sweet, Fruity & Mellow
The whisky presents warm, cake-like aromatics reminiscent of rum sponge cake with clotted cream and honey. With time, rosewood and beeswax polish emerge alongside leather notes.
This cask delivers spiced Caribbean rum characteristics with layers of toffee apples, cocoa nibs, chocolate-coated pears, gingerbread, and perfumed bitter orange peel. Water opens up grapefruit and rum-raisin ice cream notes alongside hints of Sachertorte.
The finish carries forward the cocoa and spice elements with a lingering sweetness balanced by the oak influence from the 1st fill hogshead aging.
The initial nose neat was all about a warm rummy sponge cake served with clotted cream and runny honey. After a little while a solid rosewood table polished with beeswax and an expensive pair of handmade, calf leather shoes appeared. On the palate a deliciously spiced Caribbean rum; think sweet spices, toffee apples, cocoa nibs, chocolate coated pears, gingerbread and perfumed bitter orange peel. With the addition of water, we tucked into grapefruit slices dipped in brown sugar and rum and raisin ice cream, before eating a slice of Viennese Sachertorte. Following twelve years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a 1st fill hogshead with #3 char level.