Bruichladdich distillery announced the impending arrival of a new Islay single malt “Lochindaal”.

Lochindaal, the Gaelic Loch na dail  means ‘loch of division’, is a large Atlantic sea loch that almost divides the island of Islay in two. The distillery is on it’s shore. It was also a later name for the Port Charlotte distillery before it closed in 1929, two miles further along the shore from Bruichladdich.

Production director Jim McEwan: “As a distiller, I delight in exploring what can be achieved with different barley types and peating levels. It’s what makes me tick. “Bruichladdich’s success since we took over has been based on stocks of a traditional, negligible peating level. This will remain the basis of Bruichladdich. But from day one I also wanted to distil peated barley. Partly in homage to days gone by, but also to provide flavour variety as ingredients for future bottlings.

“Port Charlotte in 2001 and Octomore in 2002 were both new spirits named after long lost distilleries, the ranks of which Bruichladdich itself could so easily have  joined. There are few distillers that have the freedom that I enjoy to create the various styles of whiskies that we produce. As Progressive Hebridean Distillers, we take our inspiration from the past and make it the future.”

Lochindaal at 50ppm+ will be more heavily peated than the highly successful Port Charlotte but less so than Octomore, the world’s most heavily peated whisky. The range of new spirit peating levels will now be Bruichladdich unpeated, Port Charlotte 40ppm, Lochindaal 50+ppm and Octomore at 80+ ppm

The first 100 casks of the 2007 distillation only will be offered for sale to the public at £1850 a cask. Cask 1 has already been purchased by Lotta Pahlsson in Karlskrona, Denmark.