1978 Brora 40yo - 200th Anniversary (49.2%)

This 40-year-old Brora single malt was initially released to commemorate the Highland distillery’s 200th anniversary. Established in 1819, the distillery fell victim to the 1980s whisky loch and ultimately closed its doors in 1983. Since then, Brora has become one of Scotland’s most iconic and collectable lost distilleries. This bottling is a vatting of 12 American oak hogsheads distilled in 1978 and laid down during the distillery’s “age of peat” from 1969 to 1983. Many believe this period to be the most interesting in the distillery’s history as the team produced smoky malts using heavily peated north Highland barley. Only 1,819 bottles (a nod to the distillery’s original opening in 1819) were released one year before the lost distillery was resurrected in May 2021.