The 2009 'Silent Season' will run from the last 2 weeks in July through to the
end of August for maintenance, holidays, and usually lack of water.
With the exception of the 'Silent Season', the
distillery will be in production throughout the year (7-8 mashes per week).
Three different spirits are distilled in the following order:
Bruichladdich Traditional Bruichladdich - the mainstay of our distilling program - has a
phenolic content of around 3 to 5 ppm. The unusually tall and narrow
necked Bruichladdich stills produce a pure, floral, and elegant spirit that
is exceptionally good to taste young - and marries well with bourbon cask
maturation. Since 2003 a good proportion of this is from organically grown
barley.
Port Charlotte Our peated version. An excellent result has been obtained: the elegance of
spirit derived from the unusually tall and narrow necked Bruichladdich stills
producing a pure floral spirit with aromas of peat - but without the medicinal
or oily characteristics associated with highly peated malted barley at 40 ppm
(in honour of the original style of Bruichladdich from 1881)
Octomore Following the success of the Port Charlotte, a small amount of a third malt
is now distilled at Bruichladdich. Octomore, on the hills above Port Charlotte,
is a farm where the versatile James Brown - piper, policeman, light houseman,
and farmer - rents out his excellent holiday cottages. In the farm's barns is
the site of a small, ancient distillery that has long since disappeared, though
signs remain in some of the outhouses of its presence. This is the heaviest
peated whisky on Islay - and the world - at a minimum of 80.5ppm.
Natural Born Distillers Sophisticated Independent Spirit Privately Owned
Scottish Company Natural Whisky Islay Bottled
Islay Spring Water For Savouring
Distilling
Program