ADDITIONAL AWARDS:
2021 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award
2021 Scottish Whisky Awards – Brand Experience of the Year
2019 Scottish Whisky Awards: Tourism Destination of the Year
By 2015, they had identified the Isle of Raasay as providing the ingredients for the perfect spirit, and planning permission to begin work revitalizing the Isle of Raasay’s nineteenth century Borodale House into a state-of-the-art distillery, visitor center, and luxury accommodation was granted in 2016.
Starting with a blank sheet of paper, they set about designing a distillery to create exceptional whisky that develops elegance, complexity, and depth early on in the maturation process and a handcrafted Hebridean gin that encapsulates Raasay’s style, character and impressive geological variety.
Since its establishment, the Isle of Raasay Distillery has brought job opportunities to the island, worked closely with other local businesses and become embedded in the island’s tight-knit community.
Part of the distillery’s ethos is to produce, mature, bottle and market every drop of spirit directly from the island. This seeks to maximize the influence of the island on the spirit, and the distillery on the island. To quote the inimitable Whisky Writer Dave Broom at our distillery opening: ‘we are not just making alcohol, we are making spirit.’
Isle of Raasay Single Malt
Two Isle of Raasay spirits – peated and unpeated – are matured separately in first fill Rye whiskey, fresh Chinkapin Oak and first fill Bordeaux red wine casks.
Our six recipe casks marry together to create the perfect dram with real elegance, complexity, and depth.
Color: Autumnal Gold
Nose: Beach bonfire, dark fruit – currents & cherries, apricot.
Palate: Lightly peated with rich dark fruit flavors. Black pepper spice, crystalized ginger.
Finish: Vanilla, butterscotch, and a touch of sea salt.
2024 London Spirits Competition – Gold 92 points
2023 Las Vegas Global Spirit Awards – Gold, 94 pts.
2023 Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition – Gold
2023 International Wine & Spirits Competition – 92 points
2022 World Whiskies Awards – Category Winner – Scotch Islands (non Islay) Small Batch Single Malt No Age Statement
2022 Scotland Food & Drink Distilled Spirit of the Year
2022 Spirits Business Scotch Masters – Isle of Raasay Single Malt – Gold
IWSC Gold Winner: 95 Points
2021 Scottish Whisky Awards: Newcomer of the Year
World Whiskies Awards: Winner of Small Batch Non Age Statement
Isle of Raasay Gin
Presenting our handcrafted Scottish island gin, now in a bottle as beautifully crafted as the liquid inside. Our bottle is a reflection of the impressive island geology and our recipe combines ten carefully chosen botanicals, including Raasay juniper, sweet orange peel, lemon peel, and our double distilled spirit.
Bottled at 46% using water from our well, this is the first legal spirit from an island rooted in centuries of illicit distilling.
Every drop of our Scottish gin is lovingly distilled and bottled on the Isle of Raasay.
Dry, zesty, refreshing and smooth
2022 Spirits Business Global Gin Masters – Gold
Isle of Raasay Distillery of the Year Limited Release
Honoring our ‘Distillery of the Year’ award at the Scottish Whisky Awards 2022, this release is our unpeated spirit matured in ex-Four Roses Bourbon casks before a second maturation in Quercus humboldtii (Andean or Colombian Oak)
At 5-years-old, this is the oldest Isle of Raasay whisky we have released to date. It is our first major UNPEATED release.
50.7% abv
Limited Release – 9,500 bottles globally, 1,200 for the US
Unpeated spirit with notes of vanilla and butterscotch; with a long finish of Crème Brûlée
Isle of Raasay Dùn Cana
A new addition to our core Single Malt range, Dùn Cana is our peated and unpeated spirit matured first in the strong foundations of our rye casks with a second maturation in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso Sherry quarter casks.
52% abv
CASK TYPES
First maturation in rye casks
Second maturation in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso Sherry quarter casks
SPIRIT TYPES
Peated and unpeated spirit
FIRST EDITION RELEASED 2023
14,000 BOTTLES GLOBALLY
1,500 for the US
This whisky boasts hints of peppery spice, roasted nuts, sweet fruit, and vanilla.
ex Rye Whiskey Single Cask
These American ex-Rye Whiskey casks are from Woodford Reserve Distillery, KY where they use 53% Rye in their mash bill. The flavors emulate history’s original Rye whiskies with strong, peppery, spicy flavors in a sea of fruit and butterscotch.
These casks develop interesting pepper, spice, and butterscotch flavors in our whisky.
Flavor Profile:
Black Pepper
Butterscotch
Sweet Spice
Vanilla
259 Bottles at 61.6% abv.
These American ex-Rye Whiskey casks are from Woodford Reserve Distillery, Kentucky, where they use 53% Rye in their mash bill.
The flavors emulate history’s original Rye whiskeys, with strong peppery, spicy flavors in a sea of fruit and butterscotch.
61.5% abv
239 bottles
Chinkapin Oak Single Cask
Freshly charred and toasted, these custom made Chinkapin, or Quercus Muehlenbergii, American White Oak casks are a type of Oak native to Central and Eastern North America.
The fresh charring of the cask brings a rich color and flavor early on in the maturation process and the high toast caramelizes the natural sugars in the wood. Expect sweet toffee and butterscotch on the nose; with vibrant dark fruit flavors and deep, rich colors at a young age.
Flavor Profile:
Toffee, Scottish Tablet
Sweet ginger, Heather Honey
Dark fruits, red currants
Malted Granary bread
307 Bottles at 61.2% abv.
Freshly charred and toasted, these custom made Chinkapin, or Quercus Muehlenbergii American White Oak, casks are a type of Oak native to Central and Eastern North America.
The fresh charring of the cask brings a rich color and flavor early on in the maturation process, and the high toast caramelizes the natural sugars in the wood. Expect sweet toffee and butterscotch on the nose, with vibrant dark fruit flavors and deep, rich colors at a young age.
61.4% abv.
269 bottles
ex-Bordeaux Red Wine Single Cask
- Unpeated Cask #18/281 Description
- Peated Cask#18/796 Description
- Peated Cask#18/796 Review - Drinkhacker
Stained red on the outside, these high quality ex-Bordeaux red wine casks are delivered fresh to the island from the château in South West France. In the first few moths of maturation, our spirit develops a pink hue in these casks (which turns into a deeper, darker red).
Bold flavors and fruity notes develop in the spirit including dried fruits, sultana, grape, Christmas cake, & bread pudding.
Flavor Profile:
Savory spice, cinnamon
Cherries, black grapes
Sandalwood
A hint of saltiness.
307 Bottles at 61.2% abv.
Stained red on the outside, these high quality ex-Bordeaux red wine casks are delivered fresh to the island from the Châteaux of South West France. In the first few months of maturation, our spirit develops a pink hue in these casks, which turns into a deeper, darker red.
Bold flavors and fruity notes develop in the spirit – including dried fruits, sultana, grape, Christmas cake, & bread pudding.
59.5% abv.
296 bottles
Isle of Raasay Ex-Bordeaux Single Cask 2023 – Aged in first-fill ex-Bordeaux red wine casks. Removed from the blend, this wine-aged Raasay spirit stands impressively on its own with a full aroma of fruit cake, grape skin, fig preserves, and blackberry jam. The peat smoke, heathery and mild, is laced throughout, almost adding a creaminess to the experience. The palate is bright and sweet with barley sugar, cherry juice, and grape Jolly Ranchers. A peppery spice helps to reign in some of that sweetness, but it remains rather exuberant. A soft, ashy smoke arrives on the midpalate to further subdue some of those sugary dark fruits, giving way to exotic oak and salty pipe smoke on the finish. A touch sweet but still an impressive young single malt. Reviewed: Cask 18/664. 123.4 proof. A-