Ardbeg SMOKETRAILS The Ultimate Manzanilla Edition 46% Vol. 1l

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<p>ARDventure awaits! Ardbeg Smoketrails is a highly collectible series of limited edition whiskies.</p><p>Only available from Duty Free and the Distillery Visitor Centre, each edition offers travellers a thrilling way to explore the influence of casks from around the world on the powerful smoky flavour of Ardbeg.</p><p>The first in the series – Ardbeg Smoketrails Manzanilla Edition – marries whisky aged in the finest Manzanilla sherry casks and classic Ardbeg American oak casks. The result is a taste adventure that takes in dark chocolate, salty sea spray, Brazil nuts and saddle soap.</p><p><strong>Follow that smoketrail!</strong></p><p>Here’s where you can buy Ardbeg Smoketrails around the world:</p><p>From the 5th October 2022: exclusively in nine UK airports (London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow)</p><p>From the 1st November 2022: in person at the Ardbeg Distillery Visitor Centre and in most international airports globally.</p><p><strong>ABV</strong></p><p>46%</p><p><strong>COLOR</strong></p><p>Pale Gold</p><p><strong>NOSE</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>TASTE</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>FINISH</strong></p><p>Plumes of fennel and pine billow up, leaving a long, lingering trail of carbolic soap, aniseed and leather.</p>