As we come towards the end of our first season and into winter we have reduced the number of tours on offer each day, and like many distilleries we will close our visitor centre and shop over Christmas and New Year. Winter Distillery Tour Times Our visitor centre will operate a restricted number of distillery...Read More
Our First Year It’s a sobering fact of life that a year isn’t deemed a long time in the world of whisky-making – that is unless it’s your first year! Since opening our doors to locals for our first distillery tour on 9th January, 2018 has been a year of many firsts for us all...Read More
With our latest bottling of Raasay While We Wait, our 2018 Release, now available in the Distillery shop and online, we thought we’d ask Chris Hoban, Raasay Distillery Brand Ambassador, and Nicholas Holroyd of Craft Whisky Club, for their thoughts on the new release and how it compares previous releases. Raasay While We Wait is a lightly...Read More
The Tweeddale Grain of Truth is our latest Tweeddale whisky, and both refers to our past as blenders and bottlers, and to our future as distillers. The Tweeddale Grain of Truth is a wheat and barley based grain whisky, matured in Bourbon casks and finished in sherry casks. Grain whisky has been traditionally used as...Read More
Did you catch us on BBC Landward? A massive well done to our team who were excellent ambassadors for the distillery and of course the island on the programme. “On the face of it, creating just a few hundred bottles of whisky from one small field on the island, may seem not that significant. But...Read More
Help us pick a name for our trusty classic VW T2 Campervan and you can win yourself one of the first bottles of Raasay While We Wait – 2018 Release. It’s fun and easy to take part. Choose a Name to Enter Now To enter, just vote for your favourite name from the top five names...Read More
The recent passing of our first anniversary gave our Head Distiller Iain Robertson a fine excuse to dip the casks and sample how our spirit is maturing in our island warehouse. Iain discovered that our three different oak casks; rye whisky, virgin oak and Bordeaux wine are evolving three very different colour and taste...Read More
The 14th of September 2018 will mark a special day for all of us at the distillery; the first full year of (legal) whisky distilling here on Raasay. Hundreds of tonnes of barley. Thousands of litres of water. Months of fermentations. The work that has gone into making our future whisky has been tough, but...Read More
One of the most striking features you’ll notice when you visit us at Raasay Distillery is Borodale House, the beautifully restored Victorian-era villa that sits at the very heart of the distillery. Borodale House is home to one of our most unique features: our luxury en-suite bedrooms. We are the only distillery in Scotland that...Read More
Pictured: Anne O’lone – Torabhaig Distillery, Iain Hector Ross – Isle of Raasay Distillery, Alasdair Day – Isle of Raasay Distillery, Fiona Macintyre – Talisker Distillery, Karen Betts – Scotch Whisky Association, Lesley Taylor – Talisker Distillery, Susan MacLean – Talisker Distillery, Simon Erlanger – Isle of Harris Distillery. We are delighted to have hosted the launch of Scotland’s newest whisky...Read More
