Whisky Sponge Edition No.96 Bruichladdich 2005 19 Year Old

This is Whisky Sponge Edition No.96, it is a 19 year old, single 1st fill barrel of 2005 Bruichladdich, bottled at natural cask strength.  

This bottling is paired with Whisky Sponge Edition No.97: a single refill hogshead of Isle of Jura 1994, also bottled at natural cask strength.  

Both these casks spent their entire life maturing at their respective distilleries on their islands of origin. As we hit the final run of our Whisky Sponge series, we wanted to focus on and celebrate the distilleries and profiles we really love. And there aren’t many places as close to our hearts as Islay and Jura. We deliberately looked for two single casks from these two beautiful Islands which were both unpeated and which had both matured fully on the Islands. We are pretty delighted with the results, and we feel it forms part of a fitting final run of Sponges.  

This Bruichladdich is extremely creamy, maritime and bright. Full of peppery and waxy power and texture, it shows the robustness of Islay whisky without the peat. And it’s a true, evocative and beautifully coastal and mineral Island single malt.  

*Lovers of wine casks and fantastical re-racks please look away now.*