Sold outAug 2023In short · Braeval (Braes of Glenlivet) (Speyside), 13 years.
“The nose opened slowly to honey, caramel-flavoured chocolate bars, sugar cane and straw – then blossomed into a repast of wild boar with redcurrant jelly, peaches in…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 113.72 is a single cask of Braeval (Braes of Glenlivet), in the Speyside region, 13 years old, bottled at 59.5%, released in the Aug 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 113.x is from Braeval (Braes of Glenlivet).
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
High in the hills above Glenlivet, at Chapeltown in remote Banffshire, Braeval is one of the highest distilleries in Scotland, built in 1973 in country so out of the way it has always run with the smallest of crews. It was raised as Braes of Glenlivet and took the name Braeval later. Owned by Chivas Brothers, it exists chiefly to feed blends, and its make is light, clean and grassy, the very definition of a modern Speyside workhorse. There is a purity to a whisky born this high in the glen, and a single cask lets that mountain-fresh character finally speak on its own.