SMWS code 162 is Isle of Raasay, in the Islands region. It is an operating distillery, founded in 2016. Any Society bottling numbered 162.x (for example 162.1, 162.42) is a single cask from Isle of Raasay.
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On Raasay, the long, quiet island in the shadow of Skye, the Isle of Raasay distillery became the first legal distillery in the island's history when it began work in the late 2010s. Founded in 2016 and built around a Victorian villa on the shore, it draws its water from the island's own ancient rock and makes both lightly peated and unpeated spirit, marrying them into a distinctive island house style. It is young, and proudly so, part of the wave of new distilleries putting small Scottish islands back on the map. A single cask here is a taste of something genuinely new, made where whisky had never legally been made before.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottles single casks under numeric codes rather than distillery names, so a label reading 162.403 means cask 403 from distillery 162. That distillery is Isle of Raasay, in Islands. More on Isle of Raasay at Wikipedia.
Sold outMar 2026In short · Isle of Raasay (Islands), 6 years.
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Sold outMay 2025In short · Isle of Raasay (Islands), 5 years.
“WHISKY WANDERERS This year we’re celebrating Scottish whisky festivals differently with specially selected casks that defy traditional expectations.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
Sold outApr 2025In short · Isle of Raasay (Islands), 4 years.
“WHISKY WANDERERS This year we’re celebrating Scottish whisky festivals differently with specially selected casks that defy traditional expectations.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
Sold outApr 2025In short · Isle of Raasay (Islands), 4 years.
“WHISKY WANDERERS This year we’re celebrating Scottish whisky festivals differently with specially selected casks that defy traditional expectations.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
Sold outApr 2025In short · Isle of Raasay (Islands), 5 years.
“WHISKY WANDERERS This year we’re celebrating Scottish whisky festivals differently with specially selected casks that defy traditional expectations.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
Other Islands distilleries: 4 Highland Park, 14 Talisker, 17 Scapa, 31 Isle of Jura, 42 Tobermory, 121 Isle of Arran, 163 Isle of Harris Distillery, 166 Torabhaig Distillery · all Islands codes
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