Alchemy is the black art, the eternal search for rejuvenation and immortality, which gave us whisky. Geber the Arab was the first distiller of ‘al-iksir’, the water of life, in Persia around 790 AD. The clear spirits Eau de Vie, Aqua Vitae, Vodka, Aquavit, Uisque Beatha share that same original meaning. For he had discovered how to extract gold from its ore by way of a liquid medium, his elixir. Surely, he therefore believed, gold could be created by the very rearrangement of a base metal’s qualities by another elixir? And if that could turn corruptible metal into incorruptible gold, what could it do to life itself? Eternal life? It must be the veritable water of life.

Black Art – the never ending search for immortality.

This is a mysterious single vintage cuvee by distilling wizard Jim McEwan concocted for ultimate complexity. A bottling that specifically explores the mysteries of cask selection, coopering skills, techniques, oak types, cask sizes, oak grains, forest origins, and their other-worldly interaction with the spirit.

1989 SINGLE VINTAGE BRUICHLADDICH – AGED 21 YEARS.

BLACK ART – THE EXPLORATIVE BOTTLING THAT PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF CASK KNOWLEDGE. THE SECOND BLACK ART RELEASE, NOW AN ON-GOING PART OF THE BRUICHLADDICH RANGE. AN UNASHAMEDLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING, COMPLEX DRAM. MATURED IN A WIDE VARIETY OF AMERICAN & EUROPEAN OAK CASKS.

A RICH, COMPLEX DRAM DEMANDING SERIOUS ATTENTION AND REFLECTION – A LATE-NIGHT DRAM. AVAILABLE FOR BETWEEN 1 TO 3 YEARS DEPENDANT ON SALES AND STOCKS. BOTTLED AT CASK STRENGTH OF 49.7%

NATURAL WHISKY: NON CHILL-FILTERED AND COLOURING FREE. DISTILLED, MATURED AND BOTTLED AT BRUICHLADDICH DISTILLERY ON ISLAY. THE SECRET ALCHEMY OF THE BRUICHLADDICH SPIRIT… WE DON’T EXACTLY KNOW HOW JIM CONJURED-UP THIS SUBLIME DRAM – IT’S HIS SECRET.

BUT IT IS VERY FINE, INCREDIBLY ELEGANT, DECADENTLY HUED, PERPLEXINGLY COMPLEX, MISCHEVIOUSLY PREPARED AND BEGUILINGLY PROVOCATIVE.

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