Braes of Glenlivet 1979 15 Year Old Cask #16040 Signatory

Braeval Brachadair 1991/2013

Distillery #64: Braeval (or Braes of Glenlivet, if you like). My first whisky from this distillery and for my first dram I've picked a bottle from a Belgian bottler called Brachadair (Gaelic for malt man). They had no releases back in 2014, so maybe they are not even active anymore. Although Braeval has no official releases, many consider it to be...

Score 90/100

Braeval 21 Year Old 1991 The Whisky Mercenary

The Whisky Mercenary, aka Belgian bottler Jürgen Vromans, released two new bottlings on 9 May 2013. A Cooley from Ireland and this Braeval. Very sweet nose, albeit extremely soft. Beesax, pineapple cubes, toffee, hints of brown sugar, mandarin, almond paste. Surely this was a sherry cask. Pretty floral as well with grasses and wild flowers. It...

Score 85/100

Braeval 15 Year Old 1998

cask 9989 Old Particular (Douglas Laing) Good legs Colour: Golden straw Nose: Grass, floral, citrus, green apples, oak. Palate: Soft in the mouth. A little oak spice, barley, toffee, vanilla. Finish: Medium Long, fading spices, slightly drying. This is a bottle I got to tick off my list of distilleries I hadn't yet tried. It's pleasant but...

Score 81/100

Braeval 2001 / 14 Year Old / Old Particular

Because its whisky is used primarily for blending purposes (in this case by Chivas Bros.), Braeval is one of those seamlessly endless Speysiders that escape the notice of many malt drinkers. I have been spending the last year or so trying to sample as many of these under the radar malts as my budget will allow (most are not available in the U.S....

Score 88/100