Bruichladdich 1986 Single Sherry Cask 18 Year Old #540 for Park Ave. 57.5%

Bruichladdich 1986 Single Cask 18 Year Old #540 for Park Ave. 57.5%

This is a single cask bottling, distilled in 1986 and selected by Master Distiller, Jim McEwan, for the Park Avenue Liquor Shop in New York in 2005.

Like its island neighbour Bunnahabhain distillery, Bruichladdich has traditionally been an un-peated single malt, mostly owing to its requirements by the blenders who owned it. The last of these was Whyte and Mackay, who eventually shut it down in 1995, deeming it surplus to requirements. They sold the distillery to Murray McDavid in 2001, who launched the peated Port Charlotte and heavily-peated Octomore single malts in 2006 and 2008. A recommissioned Lomond still also now produces the popular Botanist gin there.