The Lakes Founder's Club 7 Year Old 2015 Year 7 Limited Edition English Single Malt Whisky (2022) 70cl

A rare bottle of the Lakes from 2022 for the Founders Club.

Distilled at The Lakes Distillery in Cumbria, this release is part of the Founders' Club series which will be released annually for the first 10 years of the distillery being open and is drawn from the initial 100 casks that were ever produced at the distillery. This is the 7th year release which has been matured for an undisclosed period of time in oak casks before being bottled at 46.6% abv. free from chill filtration and artificial colouring.

About The Lakes

The Lakes has long been a crucible for creativity, a place in which the imagination can flourish. It isn’t preserved in aspic, a place of nodding daffodils and naughty bunnies, but a challenging place where questions can be asked, new ideas formulated, something which goes deeper than picture box prettiness.

Wordsworth returned here because it was the only place he could formulate his radical thoughts about poetry; his fellow poets joined him because in the wildness they found the Romantic ideal of the sublime that challenged conventional thoughts of beauty. It didn’t stop there, countless artists, authors, philosophers and musicians have found in the Lakes a place where their vision can be fully manifested. It seeps into every word, note or brushstroke.

Whisky at its best triggers an emotional response, it is more than a drink. It shares that with landscape.

If you strip it back to basics what you need for a new distillery is access to lots of cold, clean water, space for storing the casks, and access to market. You could make whisky anywhere these requirements are met. What makes you choose the place, speaks of the person.

So it was with the Currie family. Paul may have worked in Scotch whisky, but holidays were taken back home in England, in the Lakes. He may have had whisky in his veins, but why not an English distillery in the Lake District? He could tick off all the requirements: water, land, old farm buildings suitable for conversion, potential visitor numbers; but most importantly it felt right.

This is a good place to make whisky. It is a good place to be. It changes perspective, gets into your bones.

46.6% ABV

70cl