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 2001
Resurrection Dram
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bottle shot & info Sheet)
The first bottling of the new era for Bruichladdich is being launched. The Islay
distillery saved from extinction is now ready to show off it’s inaugural dram.
The distillery had been closed down In 1994, the staff sacked, machinery left to
the vagaries of Hebridean weather, there was scant hope of resurrecting it.
Yet, in 2001 under new, private ownership and six months of stripping down every
nut and bolt of the old Victorian machinery, the 'old lady danced again'.Read
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 All American
Classic
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Bruichladdich has released an all American Classic with French royal family and
revolutionary war connections - The Bourbon 16
US
Prohibition ended in 1933. Bourbon laws state these casks can be used just once
before being sold to an eager Scottish whisky market.
Today redundant Bourbon barrels represent about 97% of casks used for maturing
Scotch whisky. Their influence on Scotch is enormous.Read
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  End
of a Golden Era
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Bruichladdich Distillery have released two ‘end-of-era’
single malts.
The new bottlings, “Golder Still” and “Sherry 21”, are
the last in a run of particularly special casks the style of which are
unlikely to be seen again.
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 First
Growth Whisky
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The Auld
Alliance is alive and well as Bruichladdich release a series of whiskies
influenced by the greatest Bordeaux chateaux of all time.
The famous 1855 Classification of Bordeaux rated chateaux into 5 groups
according to quality and price of their wines. The First Growths were
the best.
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The
World's Most Heavily Peated Whisky
The world's most heavily peated whisky ever has finally been released. "Octomore"
is a hefty new Islay Single Malt Whisky, more than twice as peaty as any
other existing whisky in the world to date.
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Islay Spirit.
In 1695 a
Hebridean traveller wrote of an ancient, powerful spirit known as
“usquebaugh-baul” (oosh-ker-vah-voll), the Gaelic for ‘perilous whisky’.
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