Bruichladdich whisky - edencroft fine wines

Scotch Single Malt Whisky - Bruichladdich

Bruichladdich (try ‘Brook-Laddie’) is a Gaelic reference to the ‘raised beach’ upon which the distillery is sited, on the Hebridean Isle of Islay, on Scotland’s wild west coast.

Built in 1881 by William Harvey and his brothers, it was closed down in 1994 as “surplus to requirements”.

On 19th December 2000 it was acquired by a small group of private investors led by Mark Reynier.

Following extensive renovation, the distillery recommenced distilling at 08.23 on the 29th May 2001. Bruichladdich, now a private Scottish company operated, managed and directed on Islay.

Scotland’s purest single malt whisky is made from an unusual marriage of manual C19 equipment, inspirational distillery design and pre-industrial distilling techniques. 500,000 - 700,000 litres are distilled annually from 100% Scottish barley – increasingly Organic and Islay grown – from different farms (terroirs), varieties and peating levels.

Matured beside the Atlantic, the whisky is bottled in Islay’s only bottling hall - 100% naturally - free from chill-filtration, colouring, and homogenisation. Islay water, filtered through the oldest rocks in the whisky world, is used to reduce from cask to bottling strength of 46%. Inspired by both the wine and whisky worlds, pioneering whiskies are designed by Master Distiller Jim McEwan. Bruichladdich is known as The Sophisticated Islay. Owing to the unusually tall, narrow-necked stills our single malts are subtle yet compelling, fresh and ‘un-medicinal’. As the old French proverb says: “it is in old pans that one does the best cooking”.

Black Art
Bin No	BLA/026	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	51.1%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£75.00
A spellbinding dram created over the years by head distiller Jim McEwan. In the stygian darkness of warehouse No. 12 a rare complex spirit and a tribute to those earlier alchemists, who like us sought the very secret of eternal youth. The Water of Life. Read More

Infinity #3
Bin No	BLA/005	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	50%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£45.00
Infinity is a multi-vintage Bruichladdich designed by distilling legend Jim McEwan to showcase the complexity of our spirit. Having explored our vast maturing stocks he has put together selected casks unearthed from across the ages, Bruichladdich’s of diverse vintage character. Cask type and barley harvest to create a sophisticated flavour profile. Elevated to a stellar level and producing a truly infinite finish Read More

Old Malt Cask 15 Year Old Bruichladdich
Bin No	OMC1610	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	50%	Bottled by	Douglas Laing	Price	£60.00
Nose: Fresh, fruity with spiced plums + moss in wet pine forest. Palate: Velvety, balanced with sweet spices and an oaky style. Finish: Still spiced with dry ashinness and a sweet tang. *91 points Jim Murray's 2010 Whisky Bible*

XXI Aged Years
Bin No	BLA/027	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	46%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£78.50
This bottling comes from an increasingly rare parcel of supreme Oloroso Sherry casks matured in their warehouses. It is the glorious end of an era and is unlikely to be repeated for some time. Genuine, quality Oloroso Sherry casks are increasingly rare. For almost the last three decades Sherry has not been shipped to the UK in bulk so available casks are increasingly thin on the ground as the wood is now fatigued - hence the “scurrilous” preponderance of the artificial colorant E150. Read More

Port Charlotte PC7
Bin No	BLA/032	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	61%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£60.00
The third release of the Port Charlotte single malt, distilled at the Bruichladdich distillery in 2001. Again from the same vintage stocks, this time bottled in October 2008, the whisky is now seven years of age. Now the natural cask strength has fallen to 61%, the spirit becoming more compelling all the time. Read More

First Growth Series, Margaux
Bin No	BLA/017	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	46%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£47.50
Nose: fingers of grape essence tease and play with crisp malt; there is almost a frailty to the spices. Taste: quite simply one of the finest deliveries of any non-peated Islay I have ever encountered or any other whisky come to that. The perfection of the juicy grape, the élan, as it glides over the barley is something you are never likely to forget; words, I'm afraid, could simply never do it justice. Finish: dries and reverts to a spiced attack as the vanilla gets little more than a foothold. Balance: a true Premier Cru malt...I have been almost certainly the most outspoken critic of whisky finishes: trust me, if they were all like this, you would never hear the merest clack of a dissenting typing key from me again. *94 points Jim Murray's 2010 Whisky Bible*

First Growth Series, Pomerol
Bin No	BLA/020	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	46%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£47.50
Nose: a real floral dustiness to the grape; delicate spice pickle. Taste: barley tries to make a brief statement before the microphone is snatched away by bristling fruit; the mouth-feel is a bit like a dissolving sugar candy. Finish: some oak gets a word in, but can barley make itself heard against the barley. Balance: so luminous on the palate, it's positively Lafleurescent... *2.5 points Jim Murray's 2010 Whisky Bible*

Octomore/2_140
Bin No	BLA/033	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	62.5%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£87.50
The world's peatiest whisky just got peatier. We have dialled up the peating level of the second bottling of Octomore, “the iron fist in a velvet glove”, which has increased to 140ppm, the strength of total phenols in the malted barley prior to distillation, expressed in part per million. . Read More

Octomore 02.2 “Orpheus”.
Bin No	BLA/034	Region	Islay	Size	70cl
ABV	61%	Bottled by	Distiller	Price	£87.50
Octomore 02.2 “Orpheus” Matured in American oak and bottled at 61% after a further period in legendary quality Allier oak - casks sourced from the sublime Bordeaux Chateau Petrus; bringing depth, definition and finish quite literally “from another world”. Read More