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This specially selected release marks the first single cask expression from the Isle of Raasay to be made available exclusively for New Zealand. Selected by the team at Raasay from unpeated spirit that matured in a first-fill Chinkapin oak cask (number 19/545). The nose is vibrant and fruity to start, offering cranberry, raisin and prune notes, joining a fragrant gingery, spicy kick from the wood. There is a honeyed character as well, bringing about a flavour of boozy hot toddies at a cracking 61.3% natural strength.

Bottled at a natural strength and colour, non-chill filtered.

Situated on the remote Hebridean Island of the same name, Raasay Distillery was founded in 2014. While the island is no stranger to distilling, Raasay is the first legal distillery to be built there. With fewer than 200 inhabitants, Raasay is a tight knit community, the distillers aim to be at one with the island, bottling on site and employing many locals.

The Raasay Hebridean Gin is distilled in the old way, using malted barley spirit three times distilled in a pot still. Unusually the juniper is harvested on the island itself, complimented by botanicals such as rhubarb root, cubeb, angelica root, and sweet orange peel.

Released last year to celebrate Raasay's "distillery of the year" award for 2022, this limited edition release was matured originally in ex-bourbon barrels before a finish in casks made from virgin Quercus Humboldtii, a type of oak which only grows in Colombia or Panama. Heavy vanilla and butterscotch notes join creme brulee, black cherries and fragrant savoury spices

Created from a marriage of both peated and unpeated whisky, this new release from Raasay continues their use of six different cask types to create an old-fashioned west coast style. A flavour of dark red fruits leads the nose and palate, with honeyed overtones and a subtle, fragrant peat smoke throughout.