Berry Bros. & Rudd Announces 2024 Spring Release Collection
Berry Bros. & Rudd has announced the launch of its latest seasonal collection, the 2024 Spring Release.
The 2024 Spring Release collection consists of five Scotch whiskies, one Swedish whisky, and one Guyanese Rum, all bottled unchill-filtered and of natural color:
Benrinnes 1979 #62 Exceptional Cask
Limited to 198 bottles at 42.1% ABV
RRP: £1,800.00
The crescendo of aromas in this whisky begins with musty hessian and attics before rising into honey-soaked pineapple and peaches. Magnificent hints of leather and elderflower soon follow. The palate expands on this theme with apricot jam, stewed apple and lychee before developing into antique oak, cigar boxes and musty earth. The finish offers dried fruits and aged tea. This kind of complexity requires nearly half a decade of quiet ageing so accept no substitute.
Small Batch Glenlossie 2013
Limited to 856bottles at 46% ABV
RRP: £70.00
Aromas of spiced vanilla yoghurt open the nose of this Glenlossie leading to warm orchard fruits and green boiled sweets. The palate is fresh with flavours of apples and pears with honey, caramel, and clove rock. A long finish brings waves of sweet fruit and lingering wood spice.
Craigellachie 2013 #302040
Limited to 298 bottles at 55.4% ABV
RRP: £90.00
Craigellachie’s muscular spirit shows emerging aromas of fresh hay, malt and fireworks, before orchard fruits and a softer floral side of rose petals and Port. The palate is notably thick, with more barley, eau de vie, underripe vanilla and blackberries before a puff of wood smoke and digestive biscuits appear. The finish is long and one can feel the spirits oils lingering and showing a touch of peppery spice.
Knockdhu 2012 #7127
Limited to 312 bottles at 58.8% ABV
RRP: £75.00
This Knockdhu has a dry, nutty nose expanding with time in the glass. It shows almonds and walnuts before green fruits and banana bread notes appear. The palate is an equally complex meeting of fruits, wood spice and distillate-driven nuttiness, offering an excellent mouthfeel. A little tobacco dances across the finish, with a burst of citrus and some honeyed green fruits.
High Coast Peated 2012 #4333
Limited to 243 bottles at 59.8% ABV
RRP: £110.00
The nose on this whisky is unmistakably High Coast. Opening with clean, chiselled peat smoke then fresh orchard fruit and icing sugar showing with time. The palate is powerful yet sophisticated and everything we’ve come to expect from this distillery. Peat smoke, crisp green apples, wood ash and some nice minerality shine through. The two years in an ex-Islay cask bring out a little more peat reek on a long finish. This is a wonderful dram from one of Sweden’s best.
Ardmore 2009 #709317
Limited to 268 bottles at 54.2% ABV
RRP: £96.00
This peaty Highlander has spent years luxuriating in a sweet Madeira cask. Its earthy aromas mingle nicely with sweet apricot notes and plenty of gummy fruits. The palate is wonderfully viscous with hugely chewy notes of fruity smoke, plums, charcoal, earthy peat, peaches and oak spice. There is huge complexity here. Lingering smoke comes in waves against an oily fruitiness.
Guyana 2013 #71
Limited to 237 bottles at 59.5% ABV
RRP: £125.00
This is a delightfully elegant and lightly fruity rum. A luscious bed of honey aromas develops into dry menthol notes. The palate is dry, initially, until the honey gathers pace to give succulent bursts of sweet fruit.
The Berry Bros. & Rudd 2024 Spring Release collection is available for purchase now via bbrspirits.com.
Source: Berry Bros. & Rudd.