For Feis Ile 2023 Bunnahabhain had three bottlings: a 17 year-old Mòine Triple Cask, a 1998 Manzanilla Cask finish and this Bunnahabhain Canasta Cask.I already tried a Bunnahabhain 2014 Canasta butt some time ago. You will probably remember that Canasta is a Cream sherry from Bodegas Williams & Humbert. It is a combination of around 75% dry Oloroso and 25% Pedro Ximénez, blended at a young age and matured for at least 6 years.Nowadays Cream sherry casks are not very common for whisky maturation, but let's not forget it's still the most popular sherry style worldwide (for drinking, I mean). Most of the casks arriving in Scotland before the 1990s contained such blends.
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