For our 2024 single malt whisky releases, we have chosen an illustrative ‘lino-cut’ design style, taking inspiration from iconographic images of St Leonard.
Our distillery is located in St Leonard’s Lane in Edinburgh’s Southside; and St Leonard was also the patron saint of barrel-makers.
RELEASE #2
“The mindset for Embra was to set the stage for an exploration into peated whisky. Edinburgh is
the gateway to Scotland for many people and this is the idea at the heart of this spirit. We wanted to find the perfect balance of bold smoky flavours and textures of peated whisky while still being accessible to a new whisky drinker. When someone says they don’t like peated whisky, this is the whisky to hand to them. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something for the seasoned peated drinkers as we have all of the hallmark flavours and textures of a great whisky.”
TASTING NOTES
Aye. It’s a wee bit smoky…
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release #2
A gateway to the world of peated whisky, capturing classic bold smoky flavours and textures of while still being accessible to a new whisky drinker.
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New Make is the first stage of making whisky, and comes straight off of the still. It is unaged and so cannot legally be called Scotch Whisky, but it is the spirit that is put into our barrels for maturation, to become Holyrood’s future whisky. Our New Makes offer whisky drinkers the opportunity to experience how flavour is created before any cask influence.
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