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A pair of awesome 70cl limited edition Bunnahabhain whiskies released for Fèis Ìle 2023: this year's Islay festival of music and malt!
- Bunnahabhain 1998 Manzanilla Cask Finish - Fèis Ìle 2023
- Bunnahabhain Canasta Cask Matured - Fèis Ìle 2023
The first is a special 25-year-old release! This was finished in the little-seen manzanilla cask, a salty dry wine from Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, and bottled at cask strength with an ABV of 52.3%. It tastes like essence of aged manzanilla. Really superb.
Canasta is a type of cream sherry produced by Williams & Humbert. It’s a rich medium sweet wine made from a blend of dry oloroso and sweet PX sherries. In short, it’s just the kind of thing you want seasoning your cask. This is a NAS (no age statement) release that has not been coloured or chill-filtered, and bottled at a nice healthy 51.2% ABV. As with most releases from Bunna, it is unpeated.
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Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Nose Strong maritime smell, saline, toasted almonds, apples and toffee - really smells like sherry. Plus woody spices.
Palate Peppery and spicy, very dry, salty and rasping, like an old amontillado. Then you get sweeter dried fruit and date notes. Beautifully balanced.
Finish Long, sweet and spicy with salted caramel.