Bruichladdich single cask for House of Whisky
The Whisky House has recently partnered with a number of whisky producers, resulting in up to three new single cask editions, presented at the Whisky Festival in Jastrzebia Gora. And this is definitely not our last word.
Hugely popular during our Festival was our offering native to the island of Islay, namely Bruichladdich 2013 9yo, published as part of the Distillery Micro-Provenance series.
This whisky was distilled in the spring of 2013 from barley of the historic Bere variety and went into barrel No. 0956 of Pauillac wine. Bere barley is a low-yielding and now almost completely abandoned variety, but it is characterized by remarkable taste qualities. Currently, it is used on a wider scale only in Bruichladdich, and crops of this barley variety are located on Islay, in the immediate vicinity of the distillery.
The distillation of our whisky took place back when the duties of master distiller at Bruichladdich were carried out by the legendary Jim McEwan himself, after whom the distillery's current manager, Adam Hannett, took over in 2015. The whisky spent the entire maturation period in one barrel and was bottled at 9 years old. Naturally, as befits Bruichladdich products, the whisky went into the bottles in an absolutely natural form - no caramel coloring, no cold filtering and no dilution. This means that into the glasses of our customers goes a beverage of the highest quality, whose production process is thoroughly transparent.
Adam Hannett, the distillery's manager and a disciple of Jim McEwan himself, prepared a selection of barrels for the House of Whisky, from which the following was selected and bottled Bruichladdich 2013 9yo second-fill Pauillac Cask No. 0956, 59.3% vol., considered the best of the selection.
Bruichladdich is a distillery that the Whisky House has been working with for years now. Previous editions of the local whisky selected and bottled for the House of Whisky were already the fruit of this collaboration. It is now one of the more popular whisky makers located on the peat-smoke-famous island of Islay. Interestingly, Bruichladdich is essentially a non-peat whisky, and its rise to current popularity among such popular smoky distillates from other distilleries on the island is due in no small part to the superior quality of the distillate. The modern face of Bruichladdich began to take shape at the beginning of this century, after its reactivation and a complete redesign of its offerings, which involved the entire team headed by Jim McEwan. The basic, non-peat whisky was soon joined by peated editions, closely following the Islay tradition, offered under the Port Charlotte name, and the true peated monsters Octomore. Octomore, made with barley malt smoked to over 100 ppm (parts per million) and at times even over 300 ppm, is by far the most peated whisky, unrivaled in this category in the entire Scottish distilling industry. In comparison, the most peated whiskies that appeared on the market until Octomore were created on a base of smoked malt to a value of approx. 50 ppm.
At the same time, the company strongly emphasizes its commitment to local roots, invests heavily in the local labor market and is now the largest employer on Islay. A huge emphasis in its activities is placed on pro-environmental and pro-social solutions. As one of literally a handful of Scotch whisky producers, it provides full transparency of its products. In short, Bruichladdich is a distillery that is friendly to employees, the local community, the environment and consumers alike.
Both our Bruichladdich 2013 for Dom Whisky, as well as a whole range of other whiskies from Bruichladdich, is available through the House of Whisky Online, which you are welcome to visit.
[28.08.2023 / Photo: House of Whisky Online]