Raasay – Makar’s Malt Single Cask 2018/3 For International Woman’s Day (70cl, 53.2%)

Raasay – Makar’s Malt Single Cask 2018/3 For International Woman’s Day is a whisky from Raasay (Islands). Bottled at 53.2% ABV, 70cl. R&B Distillers received planning permission for the first legal distillery on the Isle of Raasay in early 2016 and they also plan a second site in the village of Peebles in the Scottish Borders: this was where co-founder Alasdair Day’s ancestors blended whisky in a grocer’s shop. In anticipation of the distillery’s first whisky release in 2020, R&B produced a peated Highland single malt in 2015 called Raasay While We Wait in suggestion of the type of whisky they aim to produce; a fruity and lightly peated malt. Bottled to celebrate Jackie Kay’s outstanding tenure as Scots Makar for International Women’s Day. Original proceeds went to Glasgow Women’s Library, a charity chosen by Jackie. The release features the poem ‘Here’s Tae Ye’.