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Ibar 8yr Whisky

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Ibar, Basque for “river valley”, is a whisky made in the Basque highlands that is deeply rooted in this landscape’s very specific terroir. Acha Distillery sources barley from local malteries, building their 8yr blend with 25% malted barley and the balance is unmalted barley. Rather than use peat to smoke their malted grains, they use fast-growing heather roots sourced from the Basque Country. Not only does this give the whisky a completely unique, green-smoke profile, but it makes the Ibar whiskies far more sustainable than cocktail whiskies using peat, which takes millenia to form.

Ibar whisky is distilled at Acha’s headquarters in Álava in their historic Hervé & Moulin copper pot still, one of the oldest functioning pot stills in Europe. Aged in freshly re-charred Iberian oak casks, sourced from local winemakers, before being down proofed with pristine filtered water from the Nervión River and bottled.