The whisky contained within Brora Iris was drawn from a tiny capsule of Brora’s distilling past. The vanishingly rare ghost stock is from the celebrated year of 1972. Brora Iris Master Blender Dr Craig Wilson described it as “a style that has come to define the Brora iconic status”, and was crafted only during fleeting periods of the distillery’s past. Together the piece creates a remarkable, never to be repeated, celebration of the skill, dedication and attention to detail that is the hallmark of Brora.
Founded in 1819, Brora Distillery, in Sutherland, garnered early acclaim for the quality of its spirit and craftsmanship. When the stills fell out of use in 1983, Brora soon earned world renown as one of the lost icons of the whisky world, with historic bottlings eagerly sought out by collectors to set auction records. In 2021 distilling recommenced at Brora after the distillery was meticulously restored as part of a major investment by Diageo, crafting new spirit for generations to come. It now welcomes small groups of visitors by appointment only in limited numbers and releases highly sought-out capsules of historic whisky from its ‘ghost’ stock.
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