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Brora distillery closed in 1983 and ceded its original name – Clynelish – to the new distillery built just across the road from it. Brora, viewed from the outside with its hump-backed hill rising behind, is a fine example of the classic, close-knit little Victorian distillery – steeply sloping warehouse roofs, an imperious pagoda head rising high above everything but the chimney-stack and a fort-like cluster of stone buildings round a courtyard.
The distillery was founded in 1819 by the Marquis of Stafford who had married into the Sutherland family. His idea was at least partly to take control of local whisky-supply away from the smugglers. There were several licensees up to 1834 when Andrew Ross took over for a dozen years. In 1896, Glasgow blenders, Ainslie’s, bought the distillery and rebuilt it to the form it has today, and the distillery eventually passed to DCL. There is one pair of stills and the floor maltings and kiln are still in place.
It is still possible to find Brora malt. When Clynelish and Brora were both in production, the latter initially produced spirit from very highly peated barley to produce an Islay type of whisky for blending; it then went over to using the same milder reek as Clynelish. There was no in-house bottling of Brora as a single malt, but casks were acquired by independents. Last distillations took place in 1983 so there could be some surprise packages around for a while yet. |
Brora
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Brora 1981 'Duncan Taylor' 28 year old
Brora distillery was established in 1819 outside the small Sutherland town of the same name. The distillery was originally known as the Clynelish distillery before the new Clynelish distillery was built in 1968, hence why the two distilleries are often confused with each other.
Price: NZ$323.00
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