A new peaty style Bruichladdich named Lochindaal comes our way the 26th October

Posted on October 3, 2007
Filed Under For the collector, Islay, WhiskyBuzz |

Today The Progressive Hebridean Distillers, Bruichladdich announced the arrival of a new Islay single malt. The Lochindaal will be destilled on the 26th of October.

The name Lochindaal, the Gaelic Loch na dail means ‘loch of division’, is a large Atlantic sea loch that almost divides the island of Islay in two. The distillery is on it’s shore. It was also a later name for the Port Charlotte distillery when it closed in 1929, 2 miles further along the shore from Bruichladdich.

Lochindaal at 50ppm+ (parts per million, phenols the measurement of peatiness imparted by the drying of barley with peat smoke during the malting process.) will be more heavily peated than the highly successful Port Charlotte but less so than Octomore, the world’s most heavily peated whisky. The range of new spirit peating levels will now be Bruichladdich unpeated, Port Charlotte 40ppm, Lochindaal 50+ppm and Octomore at 80+ ppm

Production director Jim McEwan: “As a distiller, I delight in exploring what can be achieved with different barley types and peating levels. It’s what makes me tick.

The first 100 casks of the 2007 distillation only will be offered for sale to the public at £1850 a cask. Cask 1 was purchased by Lotta Pahlsson in Karlskrona, Denmark. (Note from WhiskyGrotto - Karlskrona is in Sweden)

Order your own cask from Bruichladdich here