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Raasay Inaugural Release

Lot: 327488

Raasay Inaugural Release

Winning Bid: £210

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Raasay
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Island
Bottler: 
official
Cask Type: 
See Lot Description
Bottled Strength: 
52%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Raasay Inaugural Release

The small and sparsely populated Isle of Raasay' first legal distillery opened in 2017. The ambitious project was led by R&B Distillers, and saw the conversion of Borodale House into a distillery, visitor centre and hotel. Early construction however was halted when a population of rare Brown long-eared bats were discovered nesting in the roof of the Victorian property.  After an expert was hired, now affectionately referred to by the company as “Batman,” they were re-homed in surrounding trees and construction resumed. The distillery is fitted with two pot stills which were built in Italy and can produce around 150,000 bottles per year and all cask maturation takes place on-site at Borodale House. In 2017 the fledgling business released its first bottles of young spirt and in winter 2020 the very first legal single malt Scotch whisky from the isle was launched. 

This peated spirit has been matured in a first-fill ex-Tennessee cask before being finished in a first-fill ex-Bordeaux Red Wine barrel. It has been bottled at cask strength and natural colour. The unique glass bottle features fossils and rocks from the island moulded into the glass.

One of 7,500 bottles.

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