Last week, I spent my time on holiday in the beautiful Western Isles, spending most of my time on Lewis and Harris. I got to visit both Abhainn Dearg and the distillery that makes the whisky we are featuring this week, the Isle of Harris Distillery.

Last year, we had the first 8 batches of the Hearach, and I don’t think anyone could predict the fanfare that was to follow. Nearly every bottle of the first 8 batches sold out within minutes. Lines were stretching out the distillery and many whisky shops. This bottle comes from batch 11 of the Hearach which was released earlier this year.

Beach bonfires, orchard fruits, ginger, vanilla, and floral honey on the nose with Scottish tablets, apples, nutty malt, clotted cream, and gentle peat smoke. Amazing whisky from a new distillery doing amazing work on one of Scotland’s more remote islands. 

– Calum Diack, Quaich Bar Manager