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Isle of Raasay
Founded
2017
Region
Island
Status
Operational
Company
Production type
Single Malt
Production capacity
220,000 litres per year
Isle of Raasay is a malt distillery and the first of its kind to be opened on the Hebridean island of the same name. It is housed within Borodale House, a converted Victorian building in the town of Clachan. It was founded in 2017 by Bill Dobbie and Alasdair Day, and is today owned by the former through the Chanrossa Group Ltd through its R&B Distillers subsidiary.
R&B Distillers had originally intended to open a grain distillery in the Scottish Borders before switching its attention to Raasay in 2015. It secured planning permission to convert Borodale House the following year and filled its first casks in October 2017.
Having already showcased the lightly-peated style of single malt it intended to produce at Isle of Raasay through a series of independent bottlings called While We Wait, R&B Distillers revealed the real thing in 2020 with the launch of the Isle of Raasay brand.
Its debut bottlings was its Inaugural Release, a 7,500-bottle batch drawn from American oak and Bordeaux red wine casks. Its core range single malt is released in regular numbered batches, the first of which debuted in 2021 and these are supported by regular single casks and other limited editions.
Current owner
2019-present
2017-2019
Raasay Distillery
Borodale House
Isle of Raasay
Kyle
IV40 8PB
Scotland
Active brands
Single Malt
