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Islay Single malt scotch whisky

The Ternary
Project


DISTILLERY EXCLUSIVE

The Ternary Project is the first in a series of revitalised small-batch experiments released from Bruichladdich Distillery. Taken from the inner workings of our Head Distiller’s sample room, these non-conformist spirits are revealed for curiosity’s sake.

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Progressive Hebridean
DistillersBruichladdichsince 1881

Bruichladdich Distillery is located on the southwestern tip of the remote Hebridean island of Islay where we distil four unique spirits. Home to Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte and Octomore single malt whiskies and The Botanist Islay dry gin.

Bruichladdich Distillery is located on the southwestern tip of the remote Hebridean island of Islay, where we distil four unique spirits. Home to Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte and Octomore single malt whiskies and The Botanist Islay dry gin.

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“Conceived, Distilled, Matured & Bottled only on Islay, using 100% scottish barley. Bottled naturally, un-chill filtered & colouring free”


“Conceived, Distilled, Matured & Bottled only on Islay, using 100% scottish barley. Bottled naturally, un-chill filtered & colouring free”


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We believe terroir
matters


We believe terroir
matters


We label and trace, parcel by parcel, many different barley varieties, different farms, even different fields, or terroirs, many of whose characteristics are retained directly in our maturing whisky stocks, depending on harvest, yield, weather and crop rotation.

For us barley is a living, organic expression of the land, of the terroir in which it is grown. Our farmers are known to us by first name. They tell us about the soil, the wind, the drainage, the aspect, the micro-climate of every field.

We label and trace, parcel by parcel, many different barley varieties, different farms, even different fields, or terroirs, many of whose characteristics are retained directly in our maturing whisky stocks, depending on harvest, yield, weather and crop rotation.

For us barley is a living, organic expression of the land, of the terroir in which it is grown. Our farmers are known to us by first name. They tell us about the soil, the wind, the drainage, the aspect, the micro-climate of every field.

WHAT IS TERROIR?
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie

Bruichladdich

Unpeated Islay Single Malt


Our Bruichladdich whisky range is unpeated, floral and complex. Trickle distilled from 100% Scottish barley using much of the original Victorian machinery, the methods employed by our craftsmen have continued unchanged. This is natural whisky, non-chill filtered and colouring free.

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OUR WHISKIES ARE CREATED FROM 100% SCOTTISH BARLEY.


We believe it’s called “SCOTCH” for a reason.

Port Charlotte 10

Port
Charlotte
Heavily
Peated


The power of peat with the elegance, complexity and floral topnotes for which our stills are famous. could it work?

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Slumbering in our loch-side warehouses on Islay, our whiskies breathe the maritime air of Loch Indaal all their maturing life.


A fresh salt-citrus tang is a signature accent of Bruichladdich single malts

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Octomore 11.1

Ochdamh-mòr

Octomore

Super-Heavily Peated Islay Single Malt


It started out as a late night “what if?” idea after a few drams. What if we distilled the most heavily peated barley humanly possible. The legendary octomore, named for James Brown’s farm above Port Charlotte has taken the world by storm.

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All our whisky is bottled without chill-filtration and we never add artificial colour


We believe in natural whisky. We believe chill-filtration and the addition of caramel food colouring undermines the integrity of the spirit.

WHAT IS E150?
The Botanist Islay Dry Gin

The Botanist

Islay dry Gin

22
foraged island botanicals

A progressive exploration of the botanical heritage of our isle of Islay. 22 hand-foraged local botanicals delicately augment nine berries, barks, seeds and peels during an achingly slow distillation. This first and only Islay dry gin is a rare expression of the heart and soul of our remote Scottish island.

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VATTING OUR MULTI-VINTAGE CUVEES


Creating multi-vintage cuvees, such as The Classic Laddie, is one of the most complex and demanding responsibilities shouldered by our head distiller and blender Adam Hannett. While very different, each showcases our elegant, floral style and is crafted by carefully assembling the appropriate suite of flavours from a wide array of casks.

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20th March 2021

Living the organic dream – in black and white

Organic or Biodynamic products don't happen by accident. Here's the detail from a whisky-making point of view. And its exciting potential.
adam and regional trials samples
5th March 2021

Terroir and Beyond – Our Regional Trials

15th February 2021

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Bere Barley heads
20th January 2021

Why Bere Barley?

PG in stillhouse
8th January 2021

HYDROGEN STUDY GIVEN BOOST AMIDST PLANS TO DECARBONISE BY 2025

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1st January 2021

Introducing Flexi-Hex packaging

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Bruichladdich 1988 / 30 years

Bruichladdich 1988 / 30 years Bourbon cask: ‘the Untouchable’

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Octomore X

Octomore X

02.04.20 | 15:00 & 19:00HR | 1HR 30MINS | The Wapping Project, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London. E1W 3ST


Octomore X is another whisky dimension. A parallel universe where the conventional laws of whisky wisdom cease to exist. It will be Islay but as you have never seen before.

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The Classic Laddie
Nutritional Information


The figures below state the average representative values per serving giving 10g alcohol, or per standard 25ml measure:

ProductThe Classic Laddie
Alcohol (% by volume)50%
Nutritional values:Per 10 g alcohol (25,3 ml serving):Per 25 ml serving:
Alcohol (g)1010
Calories (Kcal)6969
Fat (g)00
– of which Saturates (g)00
Carbohydrates (g)00
– of which Sugar (g)00
Protein (g)00

WMD – THE STORY OF THE YELLOW SUBMARINE HAS BEEN FULL OF CHARACTER AND CHARACTERS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.

It started with our friend ‘Demolition Dave’ helping Duncan McGillivray and his gang to demolish the old Inverleven distillery – buying up all the old equipment for scrap and loading it onto barges on the Clyde. All so Duncan had some spares to keep Bruichladdich running in the days of No Money.

As this odd flotilla was being towed round the Mull of Kintyre and up to Islay, Laddie MD Mark Reynier received an email from the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in the USA who had been monitoring distillery webcams on the grounds that our processes could have been ‘tweaked’ to produce the dreaded WMD. ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’.

Never one to allow the opportunity for a good story to pass him by, or to get his beloved distillery in the news, Reynier embellished the tale, which soon grew to involve spies and the CIA and visits by weapons inspectors. All of which made great headline-grabbing copy in the febrile media atmosphere then prevailing around WMD.

One of the stills from Inverleven was dutifully set up outside the old Victorian buildings, and became an iconic sight, with a pair of Duncan’s old wellie boots sticking out of the top to represent those weapons inspectors searching for dangerous chemicals deep in its copper bottomed interior.

A special bottling was commissioned (of course) and dubbed the ‘Whisky of Mass Distinction’ (geddit?) and much hilarity ensued. At least among the Laddies, the rest of the whisky industry having long since given up on the noisily irreverent rebels.

WMDII: A YELLOW SUBMARINE

Things were about to get even more eccentric because, shortly afterwards, Islay fisherman John Baker was heading home to Port Ellen when he spotted something awash in the sea off the bow of his boat. Being a resourceful man, he attached a rope to said object and towed it into the pier where Gordon Currie lifted it out of the water. It proved to be a very beautiful yellow submarine.

Very conveniently, the yellow vessel had ‘Ministry of Defence’ and a telephone number stencilled on it, which was of course immediately called. What happened next was to become the stuff of legend. He was connected to the Royal Navy. “I have found your yellow submarine” said John. “We haven’t lost a yellow submarine” said the Navy. Which was an odd response as the evidence to the contrary was overwhelming.

John and Gordon then loaded the submarine onto a lorry and took it to a secret location in Port Ellen (actually fellow fisherman Harold Hastie’s back garden). The local newspaper was called, then the nationals, and the following day the red-tops were full of pictures of the two friends astride the lethal-looking machine, carrying fishing rods, and asking: “Has anybody lost a yellow submarine?”

Hilarious… unless you were the Royal Navy – who did eventually admit to it being theirs. HMS Blyth, the minesweeper that lost it, eventually came to pick it up, slipping into the pier at dawn to winch it aboard. By that time, Bruichladdich had (of course) commissioned another bottling, WMD2: The Yellow Submarine, and a box of lovely liquid was graciously offered, and accepted by the captain as a goodwill gesture.

Islay Barley 2009
Nutritional Information


The figures below state the average representative values per serving giving 10g alcohol, or per standard 25ml measure:

ProductIslay Barley 2009
Alcohol (% by volume)50%
Nutritional values:Per 10 g alcohol (25,3 ml serving):Per 25 ml serving:
Alcohol (g)1010
Calories (Kcal)6969
Fat (g)00
– of which Saturates (g)00
Carbohydrates (g)00
– of which Sugar (g)00
Protein (g)00

Port Charlotte Scottish Barley
Nutritional Information


The figures below state the average representative values per serving giving 10g alcohol, or per standard 25ml measure:

ProductPort Charlotte Scottish Barley
Alcohol (% by volume)50%
Nutritional values:Per 10 g alcohol (25,3 ml serving):Per 25 ml serving:
Alcohol (g)1010
Calories (Kcal)6969
Fat (g)00
– of which Saturates (g)00
Carbohydrates (g)00
– of which Sugar (g)00
Protein (g)00

Octomore 07.1
Nutritional Information


The figures below state the average representative values per serving giving 10g alcohol, or per standard 25ml measure:

ProductOctomore 07.1
Alcohol (% by volume)59.5%
Nutritional values:Per 10 g alcohol (25,3 ml serving):Per 25 ml serving:
Alcohol (g)1012
Calories (Kcal)6982
Fat (g)00
– of which Saturates (g)00
Carbohydrates (g)00
– of which Sugar (g)00
Protein (g)00