THE BOTANIST ISLAY DRY . 22 NATIVE ISLAND BOTANICALS. PROUDLY CONCEIVED, DISTILLED AND BOTTLED AT , ISLE OF ISLAY, ARGYLL, SCOTLAND. 1

PROGRESSIVE HEBRIDEAN DISTILLERS.

WWW.BRUICHLADDICH.COM KEY TO THE DESIGN WAS THE UGLY, THICK, THE COLUMN-LIKE NECK. BOTANIST “UGLY BETTY”

"AN OVERSIZED, UPSIDE-DOWN DUSTBIN MADE OF COPPER" TOM MORTON DESCRIBED IT IN HIS EXCELLENT "SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE".

DEVELOPED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE LOMOND STILL WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL CROSS BETWEEN A COLUMN AND A POT STILL DESIGNED TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND OF SINGLE MALTS.

IT WAS DESIGNED AS A CUNNING "ONE- STOP-SHOP" STILL BY CHEMICAL ENGINEER ALISTAIR CUNNINGHAM AND DRAFTSMAN ARTHUR WARREN IN 1955...

... NEITHER OF WHOM CAN HAVE BEEN GREAT AESTHETES - AS A WAY TO CREATE A VARIETY OF WHISKEY STYLES. KEY TO THE DESIGN WAS THE UGLY THICK, COLUMN-LIKE NECK THAT COULD HAVE THREE EXTRA REMOVABLE SECTIONS INSERTED FOR FLEXIBILITY IMITATING THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT STILL “NECK” LENGTHS.

ONE SECTION HOUSED THREE RECTIFYING PLATES, OR BAFFLES, THAT INCREASED OR DECREASED THE REFLUX ACTION. THE PLATES, LIKE ROMAN BLINDS, COULD BE OPENED IN VARYING DEGREES FROM A HORIZONTAL TO 1 LOMOND POT STILL NO.1. THE VERTICAL POSITION. 1 UNIQUE STILL, FIRST COMISSIONED 1956. CORRESPONDINGLY, THE REMOVABLE NECK SECTIONS COULD LENGTHEN OR SHORTEN THE HEIGHT OF THE NECK, 1 LAST IN EXISTANCE. THUS VARYING THE ANGLE OF THE LYNE ARM - UPWARD FOR A SLIGHTLY LIGHTER WHISKEY, DOWNWARD FOR A 1 BESPOKE JIM MCEWAN-DESIGNED HEAVIER ONE. THE FIRST LOMOND, A 11,600 LITER CAPACITY BOTANICAL BASKET ADDED. SPIRIT STILL BUILT BY RAMSDEN, AND WAS INSTALLED IN 1959 AT INVERLEVEN, GLASGOW. THIS WAS THE FUNCTIONAL 1 VERY LOW PRESSURE: 0.2 BAR. SINGLE MALT DISTILLERY SHOE-HORNED IN TO A UTILITARIAN RED BRICK BUILDING, TUCKED AWAY IN A CORNER OF THE 1 17 HOUR SIMMER DISTILLATION. HUGE DUMBARTON GRAIN DISTILLERY COMPLEX, ON THE CONFLUENCE OF THE CLYDE AND LEVEN RIVERS. 1 ULTRA-GENTLE FLAVOUR EXTRACTION.

PROGRESSIVE HEBRIDEAN DISTILLERS BRUICHLADDICH DISTILLERY COMPANY THE BOTANIST: ISLAY DRY GIN

1 4 10 BOTANICALS. BOTANICALS.

Botanicals are the very essence of gin, it’s raison d’etre:

31 BOTANICALS.

22WILD, NATIVE ISLAY BOTANICALS.

Juniper Communis Nana Sambucus Nigra Mentha Villosa Teucrium Scorodinium Myrica Gale Myrrhis Oderata WILD ISLAY JUNIPER ELDERFLOWER APPLE MINT WOOD SAGE LEAF BOG MYRTLE SWEET

Cirsium Arvense Mentha Piperita Calluna Vulgaris Filipendula Ulmaria Mentha Aquatica Tanacetum Vulgare CREEPING THISTLE LEAF HEATHER FLOWERS MEADOWSWEET WATER MINT LEAF TANSY

Crataegus Monogyna Melissa Offivcinalius Artemissia Vulgaris Thymus Vulgaris Ulex Europaeus Trifolium Repens HAWTHORN FLOWER LEMON BALM LEAVES LEAF GORSE FLOWER WHITE CLOVER

Tritolium Pratense Betual Pubescens Chamaemelum Nobile Galium Verum RED CLOVER FLOWER BIRCH LEAF SWEET CHAMOMILE LADY’S BEDSTRAW BOTANICALS ARE THE VERY ESSENCE OF GIN, THE BOTANIST IT'S REASON FOR BEING. THE FIRST AND ONLY ISLAY DRY GIN

CRAFTED WITH 22 WILD NATIVE ISLAY BOTANICALS, HAND-PICKED BY OUR EXPERT FORAGING TEAM FROM THE WINDSWEPT HILLS, PEAT BOGS AND ATLANTIC SHORES OF THIS HEBRIDEAN ISLAND OF ISLAY, AND DISTILLED IN THE UNIQUE AND FABULOUS, "UGLY BETTY"

COLOUR

QUICKSILVER.

BODY

THE SPIRIT IS SATIN SMOOTH GLIDING OVER THE PALATE LIKE NO GIN YOU HAVE EVER TRIED BEFORE. A TOTALLY SEDUCTIVE EXPERIENCE.

NOSE PALATE FINISH MOOD

THE AROMAS EXPLODE THE TASTE IS RICH AND ALL THIS FROM A BEATEN CAREFREE. LIKE AN OLFACTORY MELLOW; COOL ON ENTRY UP OLD POT STILL, THE ELECTRIC BUZZ OF AURORA BOREALIS FILLING THEN AS IT REACHES THE OPERATED BY BEATEN UP ILLICIT ANTICIPATION. THE SENSES WITH BACK PALATE YOU CAN DISTILLERS ON THE COAST METEORITES OF SMELL FEEL THE WARMTH AND OF HEAVEN. SENSATIONS AS THEY ABSOLUTE PURITY OF EXPLODE FROM THE GLASS. SLOW UNHURRIED SWEET DELICATE MENTHOL, DISTILLATION. THIS IS A APPLE MINT, SPRING BEWITCHING, DELECTABLE WOODLANDS, JUNIPER, AND LUXURIOUS GIN; WITH ANISEED ITS CITRUS FRESHNESS UNDERTONES, LEMON AND EXCITES AND STIMULATES BRUICHLADDICH 55° 45” 58’ N ORANGE PEEL, A BOUQUET THE TASTE BUDS DISTILLERY ISLE OF ISLAY OF SUMMER FLOWERS ON ALLOWING YOU TO SINCE 1881 THE MACHIR, HONEY FROM EXPERIENCE A STARBURST THISTLE, COCONUT FROM OF FLAVOURS AS THEY GORSE, WILD MINT AND EXPLODE ACROSS THE SUMMER MEADOWS. IT’S A PALATE. MAGICAL MELODY OF 6° 21” 46’ W ISLAY’S’ NATURAL BOUNTY FROM THE ATLANTIC WASHED BEACHES TO THE SUMMIT OF HEATHER COVERED HILLS. INHALE AND YOU’RE THERE ON THE QUEEN OF THE HEBRIDES! PROGRESSIVE HEBRIDEAN DISTILLERS