Archives for July 10, 2012

Bruichladdich's Latest Release Of The Islay Barley Series

The latest edition of Bruichladdich’s Islay Barley Series, this one from Dunlossit Farm, has been released.

The Islay Barley Series is the ultimate expression of Islay, a single malt whose provenance and traceability is as unparalleled as the origin is unique.
Bruichladdich’s Islay Barley Series showcases the first single malt whiskies in a century to be exclusively Islay made.
Be it from barley to barrel to bottle.

Bruichladdich feels that because of increasing production efficiency and global market raw material sourcing, the real sense of place, the terroir from which Scotch whisky originated, has been lost.

So, Bruichladich have set out to rectify this with a single malt that was made from barley sown and grown on the Isle of Islay.

The unpeated barley has been distilled in to Bruichladdich whisky, warehoused and matured and finally bottled still on the Hebridean island at Bruichladdich Distillery.

The terroir for this whisky is a desolate place known as the ‘headland of the gallows’. This lonely field is a rare patch of fertility amongst the barren, rocky outcrops and peat bogs tilled continually since Neolithic times.
(Interestingly, evidence of Islay’s earliest farmers, dated to 6,000 years ago, was discovered in this soil only last year.)

Chalice barley was grown by farmer Jim Logan in what is now called the Jubilee field (Queen Victoria’s, not Elizabeth’s), on Dunlossit land owned by Bruno Schroder, a Bruichladdich shareholder.
It was harvested in September 2006 and distilled eight weeks later.

Bruichladdich’s Islay Barley Series is the ultimate in whisky terroir – where once again land and dram are united.

Non chill-filltered, and colouring-free, Bruichladdich’s Islay Barley Series “Dunlossit” is bottled at 50% ABV.

Bruichladdich History
In the mid nineteenth century, 4000 acres of malting barley were grown on the island of Islay, but due to The Great War and its Islay casualties, the yield
collapsed to zero.
The programme by Bruichladdich to re-establish the cereal on the island now means 800-1000 tons, a quarter of the Victorian era yield, is now harvested for Bruichladdich.

You can buy Bruichladdich Malt Whisky from:-

• The Whisky Exchange
• Master of Malt
• Edencroft Fine Wine & Spirit Specialists
• Abbey Whisky
• The Drink Shop
• Whisky Online
• The Whisky Barrel