Bunnahabhain prepares for Fèis Ìle
This year's festival on Islay, known since 1986 as Fèis Ìle, runs from May 27 to June 4. As every year, as part of the festival, each of the distilleries on Islay (plus Jura) has a day dedicated to events held on its premises and organized by it. It has also become a tradition for individual producers from both islands to prepare special editions of whisky for the occasion.
Bunnahabhain, which in recent years has managed to transform itself from the island's ugly duckling into a beautiful and much-loved swan, has prepared as many as three editions, differing not only in age but also in the manner of maturation. Three such different festival Bunnahabhain is an opportunity to appeal to the tastes of a far wider range of whisky lovers than if the distillery's offerings were to be limited to just one edition.
The three special editions are:
Bunnahabhain Abhainn Araig is a whisky without age declaration (NAS), composed of distillates matured in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks and octaves. Bottled without dilution, at cask strength, contains 50.8% alcohol. The price of a single bottle has been set at £95.
Bunnahabhain 1998 Calvados Cask Finish is a beverage that has undergone additional maturation in calvados barrels. The manufacturer is silent on the duration of this final maturation. The whisky was also bottled as a cask strength, in this case as a beverage with a strength of 49.7% by volume. Its price is £199.
Bunnahabhain 2004 Moine Tokaji Finish is, in turn, a peated whisky, subjected to additional maturation in white tokaj wine barrels from Hungary. In this case, the strength of the liquor at the time of bottling was 52.5%. Buying a single bottle is an expense of £400.
All three whiskies were bottled in their natural form, that is, bypassing the cold-filtering stage, without the addition of colored caramel.
Bunnahabhain Day falls this year on June 3, the penultimate day of the festival. A whole series of events will then take place, prepared by the distillery's team, headed by its manager Andrew Brown, with the cooperation of, among others, master buyer Julieann Fernandez and master distiller Brendan McCarron. It will be a special occasion not only because it will be the first face-to-face meeting with whisky fans, after two seasons of virtual events. Bunnahabhain has recently undergone a significant expansion, including that part of the distillery prepared to welcome visitors.
Our customers will certainly be interested in the fact that the edition of the Bunnahabhain Abhainn Araig will be available in Poland exclusively through the House of Whisky Online. Feel free to follow our current Bunnahabhain offer, not to miss the release of this whisky with us.
[04.05.2022 / Photo: Bunnahabhain]