Bruichladdich Bruichladdich Bere Barley 2006 2nd Edition Kynagarry Farm Distilled: 2006 Bottled: 2013 Barcode ID: 5055807400510 50% 2006

Professional reviews

Serge Valentin (90)

We’ll soon need to widen WF’s page if Bruichladdich keep coming up with long names. Seriously, how could we not applaud the amazing efforts they made around anything local, including the barley? At least, using the word ‘terroir’ makes sense at Bruichladdich. You’ll find a lot of data about bere barley on the Web, I think the only other pure bere that I could try was an Edradour by Michel Couvreur (I had thought it was an… UFO back in 2006).

Colour: white wine.

Nose: we’re extremely close to the cereal, very ‘organic’, with a lot of porridgy notes, muesli, ginger, grass, branches, leaven, farmhouse loaf... And on top of all that, notes of rye whisky and Dutch genever. The farmiest nose one can find, I’d say (but its very clean).

Mouth: love it. Really. First, because it’s different, and second, because it’s extremely good, wandering in other territories such as high-end mescal and tequila. Indeed, it does taste a bit of agave! Very full, very ‘neat’, perfectly chiselled, with sweet spices aplenty including caraway seeds and juniper berries. Excellent mouth feel.

Finish: long, vegetal, very ‘precise’.

Comments: I guess it makes a lot of sense to stay close to the cereal when you’re distilling such a rare variety. It is a huge surprise and, in my opinion, anything but a ‘vanity bottling’ or a marketing stunt. I’ll even add two or three points because of the craziness of this bottling (imagine bere gives you a yield that’s less than the half of that of classic barley!) And I’ll certainly buy some bottle(s).90 points. PS: my best bere ever ;-).