Testalonga Baby Bandito Stay Brave 2024 Brandy with herbal hay

with herbal hay

Distilled in 2010 and matured for 8 years in ex-bourbon casks

with 14 days of skin maceration and 18 months in 225L French oak barriques completing malolactic fermentation before careful blending

A single cask release from the closed Port Ellen distillery bottled by Douglas Laing under their Old Malt Cask (OMC) range

Nose: Perfumed soap

Testalonga Baby Bandito Stay Brave 2024 Brandy with herbal hayTestalonga Baby Bandito Stay Brave 2024 is crafted from 100% Chenin Blanc grapes, from bush vines (un trellised vines) planted in 1981 in Swartland that are farmed organically. Hand harvested in late January, the grapes were cooled down overnight to 6C and processed the following day. The grapes were destemmed into open 2,000 litre fermentation tanks. After 14 days the tanks were pressed and the wine was allowed to finish fermentation in fibreglass