Bruichladdich 2006 Islay Grown (Feis Ile 2016)

Bruichladdich had three bottlings available during Feis Ile 2016 :

• Bruichladdich PHD_135 15 yo 2001
• Bruichladdich Valinch 2008 ‘Islay Grown’ Starchmill Darm
• Bruichladdich Valinch 2006 ‘Islay Grown’ Dunlossit Farm

We’re trying the last one, a cask filled with spirit distilled from Chalice barley grown on the Dunlossit Estate . Terroir whisky, from local processes.

The barley is grown in a desolate place known as the ‘headland of the the gallows’. This lonely field is a rare patch of fertility amongst the barren, rocky outcrops and peat bogs tilled continually since Neolithic times. Evidence of Islay’s earliest farmers, dated to...