Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie Islay SIngle Malt Review
Bruichladdich date back to 1881 and like many Scottish distilleries, theirs is a story of boom to bust to boom and so on. Their most recent resurgence started in the year 2000 when Murray McDavid bought the distillery and restarted production in 2001 with the first distillation of Port Charlotte spirit. Bruichladdich are an outlier in Islay whiskey, alongside Bunnahabhain, in that the vast majority of the whisky they make is unpeated. Of course they do dabble in peated whiskies, they have a heavily peated series under the Port Charlotte moniker with the whiskies peated to around 40 ppm. The comes Octomore, their ultra heavily peated whiskies that are often well over 100 ppm for phenol content. Outside of that Bruichladdich are well known for producing whisky with 100% islay barley, using heritage barley like Bere barley, organic and biodynamic barley and their liberal use of wine casks. Today though we are looking at the classic Bruichladdich style…the Classic Laddie. One cool thing he...
