Whisky Review: Secret Speyside Distillery 2007 Berry Bros & Rudd 14 Year Old

The bottle and labels are recently redesigned for BB&R and quite tasteful. I like the bottom of the bottle is squared off into flat-facets, and the cork is large and solid. These should store very well for the collectors out there.

The cork and bottle bottom are standouts in the new branding

Secret Speyside Distillery 2007 Berry Bros & Rudd 14 Year Old / 64%

Tasted neat, then with a bit of bottled water

We don’t know too much about Secret Speyside aside from it a single cask sherry butt #13907, distilled in 2007 and bottled in 2021, one of just 304 bottles. It is cask strength and non-chill-filtered.

• Color: tawny (1.4)
• Nose: oloroso sherry, pipe tobacco, blueberries, grape peels; brown sugar
• Taste: sherry, vanilla ice cream, sulphur, toffee, lime; bubblegum, black pepper
• Finish: medium, and sweet; butter, some hot elements

I was expecting a little bit more, there’s a slight off-note and hotness to this that detracts a wee bit from total enjoyment. However, it’s still a reasonable exemplar of what I think is a Craigellachie.

Rating: 5/10