Bruichladdich 18 year old single malt 46% vol

The 18 Year Old continues the sweet wine cask influence of the pioneering Bourbon/Willi Opitz bottling. Here we have again fused American oak with the more flavoursome French oak - but this time the casks contained the rare, sweet wine from Jurancon in the Pyrennean foothills of south-west France. Together they make another extraordinarily mellow and profound bottling.

Clos Urolat is a pseudo-organic vineyard owned by the appropriately "bear-like” rugby fanatic Charles Hours. His decadently rich wine is made from the exotically-named Petit Manseng grape - benefitting from an unusual high altitude micro-climate, where the warm sea breeze and oceanic climate allows the ledgendary Noble Rot to occur, when the grapes overripen taking on rich, raisin-like characteristics.