Lochlea - Harvest - Edition 2022 - 46%
The Lochlea Distillery is located in Kilmarnock, in the county of Ayrshire (Lowlands) in Scotland . As of 2006, Lochlea was a cattle farm once owned by the family of Robert Burns, and on which he himself lived and worked from 1777 to 1784. Barley was traditionally grown on farmland, mainly for food livestock. Current owner, Neil McGeoch , obtained planning permission in 2014 and the next six years saw the existing farm buildings converted to make way for a state-of-the-art distillery. The distillery was commissioned in August 2018, initially led by the experience and expertise of Distillery Manager Malcolm Rennie, and now under the direction of former Laphroaig Distillery Manager John Campbell . Barley is the flagship element of Lochlea; it is grown in fields just 150 meters from the farm, takes 5-6 months to mature and is only used by Lochlea to make whisky.
Lochlea Harvest Edition is the second expression of the annual series marketed as a limited edition. It succeeds Lochlea Sowing Edition, launched in March 2022. This edition is inspired by the harvest season at Lochlea Farm, when barley is ready to be harvested and used to produce the following year's whisky. The bottle's ash coral red label and box were chosen to reflect the summer sunsets and Ayrshire soil, which takes on a deep red hue once the barley is harvested. The whiskey was aged in a combination of Port, Sherry Oloroso and first fill Bourbon casks .
Not peated