Only 700 bottles worldwide + this bottle is signed !
- Category: Single Malt
- Distillery: Bruichladdich
- Bottler: Distillery Bottling
- Bottling serie: Feis Ile 2013
- Bottled: 2013
- Number of bottles: 700
- Strength: 47.7 % Vol.
- Size: 700 ml
Bruichladdich Laddie Five-O / Feis Ile 2013 Signed
Like its Islay neighbour Bunnahabhain, Bruichladdich has traditionally been an un-peated single malt, mostly owing to its requirements by the blenders who owned it. The last of these was Whyte and Mackay, who eventually shut it down in 1995, deeming it surplus to requirements. They sold the distillery to Murray McDavid in 2001, who launched the peated Port Charlotte and heavily-peated Octomore single malts in 2006 and 2008. A recommissioned Lomond still also now produces the popular Botanist gin there.
This was the Bruichladdich offering the the 2013 Feis Ile festival in Islay, and was Jim McEwan's tribute to 50 years of whisky creation.
One of 700 bottles.
Feis Ile, also known as the Islay Festival of Music and Malt had humble beginnings. It traces it origins back to 1985 and the establishment of The Islay Festival Association after it was realised that an event celebrating Gaelic, music and culture would drive tourism to the island. The inaugural event was rtwo weeks of music, drama and workshops with ceilidhs, concerts and dances in the evening. The first whisky tasting took place as a festival event in 1990, and ten years later the island's distilleries began to be directly involved, organising their annual open days to coincide with it. Today it is one of the biggest events on the whisky calendar, annually drawing hundreds of revellers, and turning out an increasingly sought-after batch of limited edition whiskies like this.
