Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition 1 liter

Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition 1 liter 

Distillery: Ardbeg

Category: Scotch Single Malt Whisky

Age: NAS

Cask Maturation: marriage of american oak & Manzanilla Sherry casks

Strength: 46% 

Volume: 100 cl

Ardbeg has announced the launch of Smoketrails, a new collection of single malts available exclusively at travel retail shops and the Ardbeg Distillery Visitor Centre.

Each edition — to be released in batches every year — will be a marriage of Ardbeg matured in American oak casks and Ardbeg matured in secondary casks sourced from around the world. The first release, Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition, marries whisky matured in American oak casks with whisky matured in Manzanilla Sherry casks from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on Spain’s Atlantic coast.

Official tasting notes for Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition follow:

Nose: Deep, pungent flavours take to the air, a curious combination of tar, saddle soap, pine resin and Brazil nuts. A very aromatic whisky, with lovely herbal notes and a hint of moist peat bog, while storm-churned sea spray soars overhead. With water, some chocolatey notes appear, along with a touch of engine oil.

Taste: A slightly drying mouthfeel, followed by deep, pungent flavours that hurtle across the palate: tar, soot, dark chocolate and a very distinctive nuttiness, like Brazil nuts or hazelnut.

Finish: Plumes of fennel and pine billow up, leaving a long, lingering trail of carbolic soap, aniseed and leather.

Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition is bottled NCF (non-chill filtered) at 46% ABV and will be available in London Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and other UK airports beginning October 5th, before it takes off at the Ardbeg Distillery Vistor Centre and airports around the rest of the world on November 1st.