There was an organic whisky bottled by The Macallan couple of years ago without any huge success. Now, here is another one from Bruichladdich. The Islay distillery is very strong in innovation, so now wonder, they ride the waves of the “fight against climate change” hype. No industry can resist. Everyone shares the responsibility of global warming. The Bruichladdich Organic 5 Years Old whisky is labelled by the Biodynamic Agricultural Association to be credible. Bruichladdich might have been worried about the pace of climate change, therefore was not able to wait more than 5 years to have a really matured whisky. Or just simply, doesn’t make any sense to age an organic whisky too long?

Since the re-opening of the distillery in 2001, Bruichladdich is working on producing more than 50% of malted barley locally, doing malting and kilning on the spot, distilling and even bottling on Islay. The barley source of Bruichladdich Organic is the farm of William Rose, where the barley was separately grown in 2003. At the end of the ageing process the whisky dilluted with pure Islay water only to 46% abv, then bottled without any chill-filtering and colouring. ‘Anns an t-seann doigh” - as it was done in past times.