The Waterford distillery was originally built as a state-of-the-art brewing Guinness facility by Diageo in 2003. It was purchased and transformed into a distillery by Mark Reynier in 2014. The former proprietor as Bruichladdich, Reynier was inspired to look to Ireland for his next project following the testimony from the Islay distillery’s Duncan McGillvray that the barley from across the Irish sea was the best he had ever seen. As with Bruichladdich, the Waterford distillery is terroir-focussed, sourcing all of its barley requirement from 46 local farms. The distillery operates a column still, and two pot stills procured from the closed Inverleven distillery in Scotland. The first spirt ran from them in January 2016, and its first publicly available bottlings were produced in 2020.
This is the elusive Broomlands Edition 1.1 that was the last of the 6 Single Farm bottlings of 2020. Just 3000 bottles were produced. Due to be released in 2020. it was pulled in favour of releasing to the foreign market. A must have for collectors of the Single farm series.
This bottle is from a private collection & is not eligible for a Vat receipt.