The Isle of Raasay Distillery is collaborating on the industry’s first ‘Casksharing’ platform with Craft Whisky Club. What Is Caskshare? Caskshare helps democratise single cask whisky by offering shares in a cask of your choice for exclusive single cask bottlings that won’t ever be released onto the shelves. Our bonded warehouse contains a variety of...Read More
Join us in celebrating #WorldWhiskyDay this Saturday with £10 off all 70cl whiskies in our distillery and online shop and share a dram of our national drink of uisge-beatha. World Whisky Day is a chance to celebrate the spirit and craft that goes into creating the first Isle of Raasay Single Malt in Scotch whisky...Read More
We are excited to share the magic of our Hebridean islands this May with the arrival of the first ever Hebridean Whisky Festival featuring Torabhaig, Talisker, Isle of Raasay and Isle of Harris distilleries. Running from 21-24 May, this new festival will showcase the best of island life on Skye, Raasay and Harris through special...Read More
May brought us some absolutely fantastic weather here on Raasay, great for visitors to the distillery but also for our barley trials. We are working with local farmer Andrew Gillies to establish varieties of barley to grow here on the island, and he’s been busy ploughing, harrowing and sowing the seeds for our 2019 trials....Read More
We’re always exploring new ways for visitors to get the most out of their experience at Raasay Distillery and to better demonstrate our process, our whiskies and what the local area has to offer. That’s why we have paired up with local chocolatier Finlay MacDonald of Chocolates of Glenshiel to blend together two of our...Read More
Its always nice to win an award. But it’s even nicer to win three! Our Tuscan red wine-finished Highland single malt Raasay While We Wait – 2018 Release has achieved its highest podium yet winning a gold medal at the 2019 World Whiskies Awards. It’s great that this fourth bottling of our lightly-peated malt with...Read More
Raasay came to Glasgow when we set up home in Kelvinhaugh for the National Whisky Whisky Festival. We set up stall within sight of the fantastic new Clydeside Distillery as part of the Celtic Connections music and culture festival to showcase our whiskies and our island. Over 1,200 visitors passed our way and two...Read More
Pre-orders are now open for the historic, inaugural limited edition release of the Isle of Raasay Single Malt, to be delivered in time for Christmas 2020. Drawn from an exclusive selection of just 40 casks, every drop has been distilled, matured and bottled right here on Raasay. This is your chance to claim your piece...Read More
After weeks of tinkering, painting, fixing and the occasional jump start, our trusty old campervan is ready to hit the road – complete with a name! We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who voted in our “Name the Campervan” competition, and congratulations to Julie, who amongst the hundreds of entries in...Read More
Now we’ve ticked over into 2019 we’re already off and running with our programme of events, appearances and offers to promote the countdown to the very first Isle of Raasay single malt in 2020. If you’ve been to any of our Raasay Tunes events at the distillery you’ll know how much we love our music...Read More