Raasay Na Sia Single Cask Series 5 Years Old 2019 (60.3%)

Na Sia Single Cask Series

700ml / 60.3%

Single Malt

$142

Isle of Raasay single malt, a 5 year old, distilled in 2019 from the distillery, at 60.3%. A modern island malt, with blackberry, plum and red berry. Bold, bright and modern. The first legal whisky of Raasay. The new wave of Hebridean whisky. Made wholly on the Isle of Raasay. Bright berry fruit and sweet oak. A lively single malt off Skye.

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SKU RAA020 Categories Islands, Raasay, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Raasay

Description

An Isle of Raasay distillery bottling from the Na Sia Single Cask Series, a 5 year old distilled in 2019, from cask 19/437 and bottled at 60.3%. The Isle of Raasay Distillery opened in 2017, the first legal still on an island with a long history of illicit distilling. The distillery is vertically integrated, doing everything on the island from mash to bottle.

It was drawn off a lantern wash still and a straight necked spirit still, following a long ferment that lends the new make a blackberry lift. A red wine cask lent blackberry, plum and a wine stained colour. By this age the wood and the berry fruit knit into a deeper malt. A short but intense maturation suits the fruit forward Raasay character. The distillery opened in 2017 and poured its first single malt in 2020. Raasay is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, just east of Skye. The six cask recipe of rye, Chinquapin oak and Bordeaux wine is unique in Scotch.

At a hearty 60.3% it carries real punch. The wine cask adds blackberry, plum and a red berry lift. A dark berry fruit and a baking spice give it real lift. A warming, fruit forward finish lingers. This is a bold young malt from Scotland's newest island distillery.