Read the full article on the frontpage.This summer Bruichladdich released two new single malts of the same vintage to compare and contrast. Both whiskies are from the 1998 vintage and matured in Sherry wood, one in Manzanilla casks, the other by way of contrast, in Oloroso casks. In July 1998 both types of Sherry casks were filled with identically distilled whisky and put to age in the same warehouse. Since 1981 Sherry is exclusively bottled in Spain, making sherry 'transport' casks for the whisky trade almost extinct.
Oloroso is a dark sweet, fortified wine, the backbone of 'cream' sherry. Manzanilla is a pale, dry, sophisticated wine aged by the Atlantic. Manzanilla is produced at Sanlucar, near Cadiz on Spain's Atlantic coast, 1400 miles to the south of Islay. "Manzanilla is world famous for it's marine influenced style; we have exactly the same effect here on Islay - 1400 miles further north."
Both of the casks having absorbed characteristics from the respective wines, influenced the maturing whisky, resulting in two different versions from identical original spirit. “Usually Sherry casks implies a nutty sweetness leached out of the wood into the whisky. Delightful when well balanced, but often clumsily over-stated. This is the real deal.”
Only 6000 bottles of each whisky are available at the suggested retail price of around £38. The stocks are estimated to last until Christmas 2008.
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Thank you for this. I have ordered one of each.
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Great, let us know how they taste!
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My order has arrived today. I will get around to photographing them and analysis sometime. Report to follow that.
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Splendid old chap, I look forward to that.
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9 Photographs here: http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff2/ ... to/Whisky/
This I think is best (it shows the slight visual difference between the "twins":
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This I think is best (it shows the slight visual difference between the "twins":
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Yes the Oloroso seems a bit darker and slightly reddish. I await your opinion of the taste.
This bottle type is really popular in the rum world and now seems to be moving into the whisky world as well.
This bottle type is really popular in the rum world and now seems to be moving into the whisky world as well.
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