InchDairnie RyeLaw 2018

RyeLaw is InchDairnie's first official release, a Fife single grain Scotch made from a mash of roughly 53% malted rye and 47% malted barley. This is the 2018 vintage, bottled in 2025 at 7 years old. It was released for Europe.

The Fife distillery runs one of only two mash filters in Scotch production and distils through a custom Lomond Hill still, a pot still with six bubble cap plates in its neck for high reflux. Rye is difficult to mash, so the hammer mill and Meura filter handle the grain the traditional roller mill and tun cannot, and fermentation runs on a yeast chosen for rye. Maturation is in new charred American oak, so the wood works hard from the first year.

Bottled at 46.3%, with natural colour and without chill filtration, the new charred oak drives vanillin for a strong vanilla note and oak lactones for coconut, while furfural adds a toasted, almost bready edge and fresh tannins give grip. The rye runs through as a dry, peppery spice against the barley's honeyed malt, into a clean finish.