R&B Raasay While We Wait 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2018 and Last Orders - First Releases Set (5 x 70cl, 46%)
Lightly peated single malts finished in Tuscan Red Wine Casks, blends of two expression (one peated and one not), both from the same distillery. The first release from Raasay Distillery produced in anticipation of the distillery starting production on the Isle of Raasay. The following four releases in anticipation of the distillery's first official bottling and intended to evoke the type of flavour that will eventually be produced at the Raasay distillery.
The first release Bottle No 3137.
The second release Bottle No 0728.
The third release Bottle No 8298.
2018 Release Bottle No 4624.
2020 Last Orders Release Bottle No 4035.
The small and sparsely populated Isle of Raasay' first legal distillery opened in 2017. The ambitious project was led by R&B Distillers, and saw the conversion of Borodale House into a distillery, visitor centre and hotel. Early construction however was halted when a population of rare Brown long-eared bats were discovered nesting in the roof of the Victorian property. After an expert was hired, now affectionately referred to by the company as “Batman,” they were re-homed in surrounding trees and construction resumed. The distillery is fitted with two pot stills which were built in Italy and can produce around 150,000 bottles per year and all cask maturation takes place on-site at Borodale House. In 2017 the fledgling business released its first bottles of young spirt and in winter 2020 the very first legal single malt Scotch whisky from the isle was launched.