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| Scotch Rocked A provocative new whisky concept – The Designer Single Malt - set to challenge several long-held industry beliefs is introduced by Bruichladdich, the innovating, privately-owned, Islay distillery. A Champagne-influenced single malt, aged in French wine casks that can be drunk on ice in summertime are as much a heresy to whisky traditionalists as the Constitution is to Norman Tebbit – but here they make up Bruichladdich’ s ‘Designer Single Malt’ concept. Deluxe Champagne houses have long known the benefit of putting several vintages together; a vertical-integration known there as Non-Vintage - or more precisely Multi-Vintage – to produce ultimate complexity. The Bruichladdich Rocks cuvee was specifically designed by Master Distiller Jim McEwan (three times Distiller of the Year) as one of three Designer Malt Cuvées each with its own specific identity. Jim McEwan: “this is not factory-produced whisky. I wanted to design a whisky that reflected the rugged beauty of this island where I have lived all my life, one with a rainbow of aromas, to show the true artistry of distilling." My inspiration? "Where the oldest rocks in Scotland meet the wild Atlantic ocean.” “Unfettered by the constraints of a single vintage I have used the best characteristics of several contrasting years. This freedom allows greater complexity. I never thought I could actively recommend drinking a single malt with ice… but with Bruichladdich Rocks you most definitely can. Being small and quality-driven, we like to innovate.” After maturing in Bourbon casks, to further confound the traditionalists, Grenache wine casks from the Banyuls region of south west France were used to add fruit nuances after a short period of refinement. The strength at bottling is reduced to 46% with ultra-pure Islay spring water, filtered through the 1800 million year old rocks that the distillery stands on, the oldest in the entire industry. |
| Bruichladdich We are proud to introduce two incredible single malt scotches just in time for Father’s Day and summer. Please join us Saturday, June 14th for a tasting on these two unique offerings. On the remote Atlantic Isle of Islay a small, privately-owned Scottish distillery produces artisanal Single Malt Whisky as it was in 1881. |
| The Purist Scottish Whisky Bruichladdich has been recognised officially as the purist whisky in Scotland. Out of 350 whiskies tasted blind by the four most respected palates in the industry. They certainly knew what they were doing when they built this place in 1881. The distillery today is a working museum – we use the same reliable Victorian machinery today with not a micro chip in sight. Ok our commitment to natural whisky is paramount. We use exclusively Scottish-grown barley, with increasing volumes organically and Islay grown. We have the only bottling hall on Islay. We use Islay spring water for bottling, without the flavor-impairing industrial processes of chill-filtration or artificial coloring. Natural bottling obviously helps purity, but it is the way it was distilled in the first place that is the real secret. (The results are published in The Scotch Whisky Directory by Mainstream Publishing.) |
