From The Official Website

– The Hearach is the first, historic single malt whisky from the Isle of Harris, as we revive the distilling traditions lost during the Pabbay clearances of the 1840s. Our dram is the result of a considered conversation between people and place, coming together to create an elegant spirit of complexity and character.

The work of our island’s men and women intertwines with the natural world to weave together an Outer Hebridean whisky of distinction. Every drop of this new dram is being distilled by local people to produce a special spirit which has been matured, married, and bottled here in this elemental place, and nowhere else. – The Hearach is bottled at 46% abv, non-chill filtered, and free from artificial colouring.

‘At first I smell a very, very light peat. Then it’s the wonderful smell of machair, like the blankets of wild flowers at beaches like Horgabost in summer. There’s a wine-gum aroma, I was very partial to them when I was a child particularly the berry ones. I get warm spices, like a freshly baked fruit cake or ginger loaf. Now there’s a sweetness like caramel bubbling away in a pan. There are just so many layers, it changes all the time. The peat returns when I drink it, like the ash of the fire in my granny’s croft kitchen in Seilebost. I taste sweet apples, I had a real thing for them when I was having my boy Rory! It’s just so lovely, light and elegant, a very special dram.’ – Sandra Fraser