Bruichladdich celebrates the K Club and Carnoustie

Posted on August 4, 2007
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The 6th and 7th releases of the Bruichladdich Links series, combining Scotland’s two greatest inventions - single malt whisky and golf - are now available in store.

Bruichladdich Links is a series of limited edition single malts created by whisky guru Jim McEwan. This time Bruichladdich has chosen the K Club and the Carnoustie to be honored with at bottling.

The K Club

The K Club is considered to be Ireland’s finest course, located outside the village of Straffan in Kildare, 15 miles south west of Dublin.

The whisky was matured for 14 years in Quercus Alba Bourbon casks with additional cask evolution (ACE) in Guigal’s French casks from Cotes Rotie and Hermitage.

The Carnoustie

The Carnoustie links course was home of the 2007 British Open championship played on a public links course. It’s located 6 miles east of Dundee at the mouth of the Firth of Tay, golf has been played over Carnoustie’s North Sea coast links since 1527

The 6th in the Bruichladdich Links series features Graeme Baxter’s panoramic painting of the par 4 15th hole, where the infamous Barry Burn flows.

Carnoustie’s final three holes are recognized as golf’s toughest finishing stretch as Jean Van de Velde found out when he discovering the burn cost him the 1999 championship.

The Bruichladdich Carnoustie was matured for 14years in Quercus Alba oak Bourbon casks and given an additional cask evolution in exquisite French Allier oak from possible the finest chateau in the world.

To date, all the Links series have been bottled deliberately at the same age to provide an intriguing comparison of the various ACE influences - cask types and oak origins. These bottlings are no different.

Both the K Club and the Carnoustie is limited to a worldwide release of 12,000 numbered bottles.

Source: Bruichladdich