The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 Port Wood Finish 55.5%

Description

The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 is a third party independent bottling of Highland Single Malt Whisky. A limited edition bottling of 360 bottles, finished in ex Ruby Port wine casks. 

The Cooper’s Choice range of whiskies is bottled by the Vintage Malt Whisky Co. (VMWC) which was founded by Brian Cook in 1992. Brian is a honours graduate in Food Science with twenty year’s experience in the malt whisky industry, latterly as Export Director for one of Scotland’s principal distillers. The aim of the VMWC is to produce a range of malt whiskies from Scotland’s finest distilleries and to make them available to independent wine and spirit importers throughout the world. This single malt whisky is individually bottled and presented under the distinctive Coopers Choice label. Casks of malts at different ages are selected from some of Scotland’s finest, but rarely bottled ,distilleries. They encompass all the varied tastes and flavours to be found from the Eastern coastline, to the Highland Valleys and all the way to the Western Isles.

The Royal Brackla distillery was established in 1812 by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle. In 1833 the Brackla Distillery became the first whisky distillery to be granted a royal warrant by the King William IV. One of only three distilleries to do so, the others being Royal Lochnagar and the now demolished Glenury Royal disitllery. Today the distillery is owned by Bacardi and is used in blended whiskies such as Dewars and Johnnie Walker Gold label.

Only 360 bottles of The Coopers Choice Royal Brackla 2014 were bottled in 2022 at over 8 years old. Cask Ref #9599 Bottled at 55.5% ABV.