BRUICHLADDICH - The Organic 2011 - 50%
Bruichladdich Distillery is located on the island of Islay , Scotland . It produces Single Malts whiskeys under three labels: Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte and Octomore . The distillery also makes The Botanist Gin. The distillery was built in 1881 by the Harvey brothers. After family disputes, William Harvey ran the business until a fire in 1934 and his death in 1936. Over the following decades it changed hands several times and was finally closed in 1994. In 2000 Bruichladdich was acquired by a group of investors led by Mark Reynier of Murray McDavid (also known today for his Waterford whiskeys in Ireland). The entire distillery has been dismantled and rebuilt, although it retains its Victorian equipment, it is gravity fed and has no computer controlled processes. In 2012, the company was acquired by Rémy Cointreau . The Bruichladdich distillery attaches great importance to the origin of the barley in its production and marketing.
The Bruichladdich range is unpeated, heavily peated expressions are released as Port Charlotte and the Octomore series is a limited edition series with the highest peat levels of any Single Malt.
Bruichladdich Organic is made from barley grown organically at the Mid Coul farm. Mid Coul Farm, located near Inverness in northern Scotland, supplied the distillery with its first harvest of organic barley in 2003. Mid Coul is a forward-thinking estate spanning over 1,114 hectares , which features a closed-loop fertility system. This system incorporates an anaerobic digester to generate electricity while recycling almost all waste into fertilizer. Thanks to this natural approach, barley is grown without any artificial inputs, resulting in the purest expression of its terroir. Distillation took place in 2011, and the whiskey was aged 11 years in first-fill Bourbon casks .
Not peated
