These really old vintage GM CC bottlings always got me curious. Great old vintages, but diluted and bulked up. Collectors love these old vintages, but my experience with GM has not been the most positive as they seem to be very industrialized, even before their announcement. I can't recall many under $1000 GM bottlings that caught my interest. These CCs and map labels are just.... I dunno, a curiosity. Had this in 2019.

Nose: light, grape juice, light wood, with time there is a hint of herbal-ness, perhaps some old leaves too.

Palate: light body, initial palate is light honey lemon water, mid palate gets spicy, more syrup, a sort of honey bread in there too, back palate has fried toast, mostly fried honey oats. After a few sips the main body has more burnt oats and is quite sweeter than before.

Finish: short, honey oats, honeyed cereal, light wood.

As expected a sweet Brackla, but the sweetness seemed to show up at the later phases and as honey oats, similar to that cereal I had as a kid sometimes. Quite flavorful for a 40%-er, but this seems to be more of a time-survival issue.

Image courtesy of Eric Yee.

Eric Yee

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