Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Pale gold with a straw-yellow hue; light to medium body
Nose
The Manzanilla sherry influence adds a distinctive saline, nutty, dry quality unlike oloroso finishes. Salted almonds, green olives, and fino-like yeasty notes alongside Ardbeg's phenolic peat smoke. Lemon, green apple, and sea spray. Lighter and more maritime than sherry-finished Ardbeg expressions. Dried herbs and white pepper
Palate
Uniquely savory Ardbeg. The Manzanilla sherry adds a salty, almost briny dimension that amplifies rather than sweetens the maritime peat character. Salted almonds, green olives, preserved lemon, and yeasty bread notes. Peat smoke, iodine, and maritime salt. Lighter body than Uigeadail — this is a bright, coastal Ardbeg. White pepper and dried herbs. A tapas bar on Islay
Finish
Medium finish. Maritime salt, peat smoke, and almonds. Dry, savory close with lingering olive and lemon. The Manzanilla dryness leaves you reaching for another sip. A masterful pairing of dry sherry and peated malt
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
Ex-bourbon barrels with Manzanilla sherry cask finish
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