Ardbeg

• Type : Single Malt Whisky
• Bottled : 2011
• Cask Type : New American White Oak
• Strength : 51.2%
• Content : 700ml
• Number of Bottles : 10000

No box originally

WhiskyNotes: 88 pts

Cash/ Payme/ FPS$3,880

(, Payme/FPS, )

Credit Card$4,020

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Online tasting note for reference:

Nose: honey malt and phenolic industrial putty peat dominate the nose. There are also salty sea airs with wafts of iodine, clams and low tide flats, cut hay, and a gentle distant hint of wet dog.

Palate: Entry is momentarily sweet with malt sugar and then with the darker sweetness of char. This is the sweetish burn essence of charred wood. The midpalate expansion is gentle for a dram of this proof with rich creamy lactones and a silky mouth feel. Peat takes over as the mid palate reaches full swing with an earthy burn.

Finish: The peat drives the turn the finish as gentle wood ash. Ash and oak tannins and a lingering herbal malt mark a fairly long finish as expect of a big cask strength peated Islay from deeply charred casks.