Bruichladdich Distillery

Rhinns, Islay, Scotland · established 1881

Owner: Rémy Cointreau
Stills: 2 wash, 2 spirit (plus 'Ugly Betty' Lomond still for The Botanist gin)
Water: James Brown's spring / Octomore spring
House style: Terroir-driven: barley provenance, Victorian equipment, three spirits under one roof
Peat: 0 PPM — Unpeated Bruichladdich; Port Charlotte ~40ppm; Octomore 80–300+ppm

The story

Silent in 1994, rescued in 2000 by Mark Reynier and Jim McEwan. The team built three distinct spirits — unpeated Bruichladdich, heavily peated Port Charlotte, and Octomore, the most heavily peated whisky in the world.

Tours

Distillery tour — Victorian mash tun and open-top equipment, no computers
Warehouse experience — Valinch cask draws — bring a bottle home

Around Bruichladdich

Port Charlotte (Village) — Whitewashed village 2 miles south; Museum of Islay Life
Machir Bay (Beach) — West-coast Atlantic beach near Kilchoman

Bruichladdich bottlings (111)

Octomore 17.1 2026 · 5 years · 59.7% ABV · 81 PPM
Octomore 17.2 2026 · 5 years · 59.5% ABV · 81 PPM
Octomore 17.3 Islay Barley 2026 · 5 years · 60.9% ABV · 132.1 PPM
Octomore 18.1 2026 · 5 years · 59.8% ABV · 80 PPM
Octomore 18.2 2026 · 5 years · 58.8% ABV · 80 PPM
Octomore 18.3 2026 · 15 years · 56.7% ABV · 309.1 PPM
Octomore 16.1 2025 · 5 years · 59.3% ABV · 101.4 PPM
Octomore 16.2 2025 · 5 years · 58.1% ABV · 101.4 PPM
Octomore 16.3 Islay Barley 2025 · 5 years · 61.6% ABV · 189.5 PPM
Octomore Rock'ndaal Fèis Ìle 2025 — oldest Octomore 2025 · Distillery only (Fèis Ìle)
Octomore 15.1 2024 · 5 years · 108.2 PPM
Octomore 15.2 2024 · 5 years · 108.2 PPM
Octomore 15.3 Islay Barley 2024 · 5 years · 61.3% ABV · 307.2 PPM
Octomore 14.1 2023 · 5 years · 59.6% ABV · 128.9 PPM
Octomore 14.2 2023 · 5 years · 57.7% ABV
Octomore 14.3 Islay Barley 2023 · 5 years · 61.4% ABV · 214.2 PPM
Black Art 11.1 2023 · 24 years · 0 PPM
Octomore 13.1 2022 · 5 years · 137.3 PPM
Octomore 13.2 2022 · 5 years · 58.3% ABV · 137.3 PPM
Octomore 13.3 Islay Barley 2022 · 5 years · 61.1% ABV · 129.3 PPM
Black Art 10.1 2022 · 29 years · 0 PPM
Octomore 12.1 2021 · 5 years · 59.9% ABV · 130.8 PPM
Octomore 12.2 2021 · 5 years · 129.7 PPM
Octomore 12.3 2021 · 5 years · 118.2 PPM
Octomore Edition 12 — Ten Aged Years 2021 · 10 years
Black Art 09.1 2021 · 29 years · 0 PPM
Octomore 11.1 2020 · 5 years · 59.4% ABV · 139.6 PPM
Octomore 11.2 2020 · 5 years · 139.6 PPM
Octomore 11.3 Islay Barley 2020 · 5 years · 61.7% ABV · 194 PPM
Octomore Ten (Fourth Edition) 2020 · 10 years · 54.3% ABV · 208 PPM
Black Art 08.1 2020 · 26 years · 0 PPM
Octomore 10.1 2019 · 5 years · 59.8% ABV · 107 PPM
Octomore 10.2 2019 · 8 years · 96.9 PPM
Octomore 10.3 Islay Barley 2019 · 6 years · 61.3% ABV · 114 PPM
Octomore 10.4 Virgin Oak 2019 · 3 years · 63.5% ABV · 88 PPM
Black Art 07.1 2019 · 25 years · 0 PPM
Octomore 09.1 Dialogos 2018 · 5 years · 59.1% ABV · 156 PPM
Octomore 09.2 Dialogos 2018 · 5 years · 156 PPM
Octomore 09.3 Dialogos 2018 · 5 years · 62.9% ABV · 133 PPM
Octomore 08.1 2017 · 8 years · 167 PPM
Octomore 08.2 2017 · 8 years · 167 PPM
Octomore 08.3 Islay Barley 2017 · 5 years · 309.1 PPM
Octomore 08.4 Virgin Oak 2017 · 8 years · 170 PPM
Black Art 06 2017 · 0 PPM
Octomore 07.3 Islay Barley 2016 · 5 years · 169 PPM
Octomore 07.4 Virgin Oak 2016 · 7 years · 167 PPM
Black Art 05 2016 · 0 PPM
Octomore 07.1 2015 · 5 years · 208 PPM
Octomore 07.2 2015 · 5 years · 208 PPM
Octomore Discovery 2015
Octomore 06.3 Islay Barley 2014 · 5 years · 258 PPM
Octomore 06.1 2013 · 5 years · 167 PPM
Octomore 06.2 2013 · 5 years · 167 PPM
Black Art 04 2013 · 0 PPM
Octomore 05.1 2012 · 5 years · 169 PPM
Octomore 10 Year Old (Ten) 2012 · 10 years
Octomore 04.1 2011 · 5 years · 167 PPM
Octomore 04.2 Comus 2011 · 5 years · 167 PPM
Octomore 4.2 Virgin Oak 2011 · 5 years · 167 PPM
Black Art 03 2011 · 0 PPM
Octomore 03.1 2010 · 5 years · 152 PPM
Black Art 02 2010 · 0 PPM
Octomore 02.1 2009 · 5 years · 62.5% ABV · 140 PPM
Octomore 02.2 Orpheus 2009 · 5 years · 140 PPM
Black Art 01 2009 · 0 PPM
Octomore 01.1 2008 · 5 years · 63.5% ABV · 131 PPM
The Classic Laddie 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2009 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2010 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2011 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2012 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2013 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Islay Barley 2014 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Bere Barley 2010 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Bere Barley 2011 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Bere Barley 2012 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Bere Barley 2013 50% ABV · 0 PPM
Organic Barley 2012 50% ABV · 0 PPM
18 Year Old Re/Define 18 years · 50% ABV · 0 PPM
30 Year Old Re/Define 30 years · 0 PPM
Laddie Ten 10 years · 46% ABV · 0 PPM
Laddie Sixteen 16 years · 46% ABV · 0 PPM
Laddie Twenty-Two 22 years · 46% ABV · 0 PPM
The Organic Scottish Barley 46% ABV · 0 PPM
Rocks 46% ABV · 0 PPM
Waves 46% ABV · 0 PPM
Peat 46% ABV · 0 PPM
3D (The Peat Proposal) 0 PPM
X4 Quadrupled 0 PPM
Infinity 0 PPM
Valinch (distillery hand-fill) 0 PPM · Distillery only
Port Charlotte 10 50% ABV · 40 PPM
Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2013 50% ABV · 40 PPM
Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2014 50% ABV · 40 PPM
Port Charlotte 18 Year Old 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PAC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte OLC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte SC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte MC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte MRC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PMC:01 40 PPM
Port Charlotte Heavily Peated 50% ABV · 40 PPM
Port Charlotte Scottish Barley 50% ABV · 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC5 'Evolution' 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC6 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC7 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC8 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC9 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC10 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC11 40 PPM
Port Charlotte PC12 40 PPM

Official site: bruichladdich.com