Isle of Harris - The Hearach First Fill Oloroso Cask Matured

The Hearach is the name of the lightly peated (12-15 PPM) single malt from the Isle of Harris distillery, and we’re big fans (they also make a great gin with hand-harvested local sugar kelp). It’s a project rooted in community, employing dozens on an island with a population of fewer than 2,000, with locals trained up to be distillers. Back in June 2024 we featured their flagship whisky (which is around 11% oloroso cask), and feel it’s high time we shared the exclusively oloroso sherry cask matured edition.

Like many exciting younger distilleries, they pride themselves on longer fermentations (about 60% of their wash is fermented for 120 hours), manual distillation with a ‘human touch’ (as opposed to lots of automation), and transparency. All the spirit is matured, married, and bottled on the Isle of Harris and as you may expect, it’s also non-chill filtered, with no artificial colouring.