Our special edition bottling of Edradour whisky
commemorates Rona's long whisky making
traditions.
The Edradour 10 year old single malt, produced by Scotland's
smallest distillery for Scotland's smallest island population, was selected for it's appropriately small
scale production and high quality. The first bottling, in a
blue presentation carton, was produced in 2007 and proved so popular that a
second edition, distinguished by a yellow carton, was produced in 2008.
The 70 cl bottle comes in a presentation carton and is available for £39.99 (including Excise Duty and VAT) + £7.50 postage within the UK. Alcohol can only be ordered by persons aged 18 or over.
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"Rona was once notorious for its smugglers, who in its rock-carved
bonded-warehouses stored the whiskies and brandies they often intercepted
from passing vessels, as well as the special blends that were distilled in
the remoter creeks of Rona itself. The favourite retreat of the Rona
smugglers was a cove on the east side known as Acarseid Fhalaich, the Hiding
Haven. This creek was also frequented by mainland smugglers, especially when
rumours or an organised raid along the deeply indented shores of Sutherland
and Wester Ross forced them at a moment's notice to remove themselves and
their stores and apparatus to safer quarters. Smugglers in those days were
usually willing to accommodate one another. The Rona smugglers never knew
when their own hidie-hole was likely to be raided ; and so they always kept
on good terms with those smugglers, to whose dens at any time they might be
compelled to betake themselves and their belongings. Indeed, to some extent
these smugglers conducted their business on the lines of a sort of
reciprocity treaty by guaranteeing to succour each other in the hour of
danger. How closely in this respect have the gigantic liquor combines of our
own generation followed their example.
It is not so very long since Rona boasted at least two stills that for the
best part of the year were in steady employment. One of the most notorious
smuggling places on this Isle of the Seal was a spot above the Clay Port
(Port a' Chreadh} known as the House of the Black Pot. Long had the excise
officials bided their time for a favourable opportunity of paying this den a
surprise visit. At length the opportunity came ; and the smugglers, who were
in the throes of preparing a very special " brew," were caught red-handed.
Many of them were forcibly detained ; but one of their gang, having grabbed
the pot and hoisted it on his shoulder, made off with it, and hid it in a
peat-bog behind Meall a' Gharaidh—the old dyke that kept the sheep out of
the corn. Though a thorough search was organised, the revenue-officers never
discovered the pot ; and, doubtless, when the scare was past, it was again
in use.Near the House of the Black Pot—which was nothing more than a bothy—ran a
tiny streamlet that, when required, was let into it by a craftily concealed
channel. In this way, while distillation was proceeding, the smugglers could
remain undercover all the time, and thus reduce to a minimum the risk of
disclosing by visible movement the locale of their distillery."
from Over the Sea to Skye by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor