Manne Lagavulin Bass

I count basses and whisky among my very favorite things, so forgive me that I was struck with a compulsion to drop an ice cube into my favorite crystal tumbler when I learned about the collaboration between Italian builder Manne and legendary Scotch distiller Lagavulin. The revered distiller donated a cask used to age Lagavulin’s potent, peaty water-of-life to Manne’s Andrea Ballarin, a whisky lover (bless his heart), for a limited edition of instruments. Ballarin shaped the smoky oak cask into one bass and two guitars, and inspired by the oxidation and rust marks typical of a barrel from Scotland’s coastline, complimented the stained, scented wood with aged hardware. Price is not available, but you can expect that it’ll cost more than a few bottles of 16-year-old single malt.