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Daily Dram Ardmore 18 yo

Collection
The Nectar of Daily Drams
Age
18 years
Alcohol percentage
47 %
Bottler
Bresser&Timmer / The Nectar
Dates
Distil: 1992 Bottling: 2010
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WDTSRG85/100

Tasting detail data

 
Highest rate 91/100
Lowest rate 80/100
Difference 11
Average 84,58

Appreciation

 
Total number of tasters 19
Excellent 1
Very good 4
Good 8
Medium 2
Bad 0
Ardmore Daily Dram
Alouis

Color: straw yellow
Nose: That whisky is very delicate, subtle and elegant.
The nose is slightly smoky, vanilla and a little finely spiced.
With aeration some fruits appear, apple, peach and very ripe pear.
It becomes more and more floral and sweet with hints waxy.
Taste: What a treat to the palate, it is also fine and balanced.
You have a fairly amount of fruit, grapefruit, peach, citrus and a touch of vanilla.
In the mouth too this slight woody smoke brings a nice complexity.
The finish is beautiful floral notes on the heath.
Long finish between citrus acidity and hints of salt.

91/100
Jean-Michel

Colour: Straw
Nose: Peat, fruit and great elegance. Phenols Aae identified immediately, but rarely phenols expressed themselve with such gentleness, freshness and restraint. Nothing catchy, and perfect integration with a very natural fruity .Gallons of orange juice freshly squeezed, and the cool but a bit bland so nice carambola (star fruit). An almost translucent lightness and free of any alcoholic footprint, all that could be considered distant and not very expressive is rather strangely mesmerizing.
Palate: The attack is mild, delicately vanilla. First, a feeling of high dilution a little frustrating but not surprising after the nose. Then it's divine surprise, if not the miracle: Alcohol, for the first time, affirmed. Mouth, while remaining extremely fluid, gains in power and structure. And above all, this small friendly and pleasant malt turns into bomb worthy of the finest exotic Benriach, gorged with passion fruit and guava, beautifully set off by a return of a peat gently liquoriced.
Final: Turns off quietly on cold ashes and a slight bitterness.
Comment: One of peaty whiskeys "all age groups" of the most enjoyable time. I buy!.

90/100
Mars

Nose: Huge fruity with vanilla and light peat.
Taste: Fruity and sweet. Lots of lemon and grapefruit. It is also slightly bitter with green bananas.
Finish: Fruity exotic to the Benriach 1976 (although lighter than Benriach). The fruit is mixed with a light peat. It is highly regulated with a lot of spices.
The finish is very long.

90/100
Pompix

The nose is fine and subtle. Peat and smoke rather discreet align themselves with nice mineral notes (old stone) and a light fruitiness (dried exotic fruits).
On the palate, the attack is mild and sweet, finely peated on barley and dried fruit notes. The mouth is very pleasant and the finish is rather long, and flawless, even if it is low power.

89/100
Piazzolla

Nose: a little (too) gentle, fruit salad (exotic?), the burnt side of the wood, a bit of marzipan, too. Probably (too) reduced. Powdered. At the second tasting, evolves on medicine notes (velpo bands) and subtle rose!
Taste: Very fruity & exotic, moderately long even if a little progressive, a little cereal too, is to bad it is has been reduced!
Final: relatively short but enjoyable

88/100
Oshen

Nose: Sweet, fruity with a nice freshness married with a fine peat. Quite mineral, light smoke. The fruits are increasingly present, especially apples and peaches. Grapefruit too. A little vanilla too. Clean. Nice complexity.
Taste: Powerful, mainly on peat, smoke and salt. Then come the fruits, apples, peaches, oranges and vanilla. Slight bitterness with hints of grapefruit. Then finally come the spices, including white pepper.
Finish: Long, in the continuity of the mouth, slightly smoky, iodine, spicy with some freshness (chlorophyll)

87/100
Alexandre

The nose is dominated by the smell of citrus (lemon) and herbaceous plants (heather, fresh grass). A little alcohol at first, but fades quickly. Very mild and pleasant, it emerges after aeration a nice complexity. There is always an atmosphere herb, medicinal hints (ether?), oilseeds (almond) and a floral touch. The set is pretty cool. A nice complexity, so even if the nose is difficult to stabilize.

The palate begins with heather and cereals. Freshness is expected , like the nose, when farm notes appear, making this whisky go to a farmer register / herbaceous / woody much more robust and assertive, despite a suspected low alcohol percentage. Powerful farm notes, very bitter chocolate, cheese well ripened , cereals (wheat) come up to the mouth chewy one side and sticky. A like it or hate it like it.

The finish is quite long, on cereals, chocolate and bitter, still that touch of heather. A hint of salt medicinal side comes and close the show.

In short, a powerful whisky in your mouth, but more with its aromas that his alcohol level. I have nothing against it.

86/100
Dadamien

The nose is reserved, sweet but young, opens with a fresh fruitiness - pear - cereal,s a trace of peat? A hint of marzipan, hint of hay, floral.
On the palate, the attack is fresh on cereal, and then a wave of fresh passion fruit, pepper, mustard, a little salty (sea breeze). In the final, cereal, passion fruit, I had a clear note of lychee evanescent.

85/100
PatGVA

N : liquorice, wheat, discret, not very talkative and interesting.
B : that another world, intense fruitiness, mango, passion fruit, liquorice, well balanced, way better than the nose.
F : huge, mango, passion fruit, astonished by is balanced very good indeed

85/100
Bpoujol

Straw color.
The nose is light, gentle, austere, the fruit (yellow and white, including pear), light veil of smoke in the background (less present after aeration). Sweet, honeyed. Light oak.
Sweet, apple, cereal. The smoke is much more present.
Final little intense, lengthy, salty, smoky.
Little complex.

84/100
Canis Lupus

Color: white gold pearl.
Nose: nose 1st vegetal, lightly woody. Some almond notes appear, also some pastry, but it quickly loses most of his expressiveness to to become extremely discreet. Too discreet.
The addition of water and aeration reveal notes of white bread and the aroma enhances somewhat previously perceived ones.
Palate: The attack is very soft and smooth. As an extension of the nose, but better than it. Slightly aniseed.
There too, a little water exacerbates the mouth somewhat, without truly changing the profile.
Final: Start immediately on a astringent note rather surprising and amazingly elegant. Peat is found, as well as new notes of bitter almond.
Adding water reduces greatly the final

83/100
RX21

Nose: Sweet Spices
Taste: Caramel Carambar, praline, dried fruit
Finale: Short

83/100
Gaxmalt31

Nose: Pretty fresh, fragrant (floral, flower orchards), honey aroma and a light scent that accompanies any medical.
Taste: Not much alcohol (43/46%),very oily appearance, then comes a taste some fruity acidity like blueberry and a strong sensation of almond. Slight bitterness in the finish, all backed by a discrete peat.
Final: Still the oiliness on the palate, still bitter almonds, a touch some oak.

82/100
Savoureur

Appearance: clear Riesling, thin legs that flow faster
Nose: medium intensity, moderately well-integrated alcohol, medicinal (adhesive plaster), fruity (pear, plum, ...) smoke and dry peat, accompaniment (not dominant)
Taste: Mild, aqueous attack, after a mixture of peat, spice and sweet fruit but all on a background of bitterness.
Finale: Short to medium
Conclusion: For me this whisky has a great imbalance between the nose and mouth with a large preference for me for the nose.

82/100
Sebou007

Colour: Straw
Nose: Tropical fruits (papaya, passion fruit), fruit pulp, strawberries puree touches.
Nose (too) subtle but extraordinary.
Mouth: quite disappointing compared to the nose. Exotic fruit behind a certain bitterness. Alcohol rather present, not fully integrated.
Finish: rather long, on the exotic fruits
The difference between the nose and mouth leaving a bitter feeling.

82/100
Amor57

The first nose is malty with hints of pear and wood. Quite still , distant, this whisky has perhaps suffered from its stay in the bottle, then leave him the time to express itself. Aeration confirms this diaphanous impression. Hints of peat, pear, and rare spices complement the first picture. On the palate, the attack is evasive, with traces of spices, , marked alcohol peat and . H
ere and there, emerging yellow fruits, caramel, vanilla. The final is of average length and low-intensity first hand on the peat, that enriched by spices, exotic fruits like mango, papaya and chadeck licorice and a nice end.

80/100
Blackmalt

Color: White wine
Nose: Very discreet in the aromas. Too even. Wood, honey that arises without warning, vanilla. Somewhat floral.
Taste: Woody too. In continuation of the nose. A little bubbly. Pine resin and a sweet taste.
Final: A pungent return in the palate. Not long enough. I can not perceive anything else.

80/100
jmputz

Colour: Pale yellow
The nose is immediately fruity, with aromas of green fruit mingling a bit abruptly with hints of vanilla. A slight tingling strikes slightly the pleasure. After a few moments It fortunately disappears and the smell of cut grass now seems to hover over the nose that gradually loses its intensity, at least if you hold the glass at a distance.
A strange bitterness following a first significantly acidulated and fruity attack. The taste of green fruit, or more accurately the tastes of sour candy that was initially dominant for a few seconds disappear as if by magic to give way to bitterness and quickly ... nearly nothing.
The finish is in the perfect extension of the evolution of the mouth, where a rapid degradation of the sensations described perfectly the evolution of this whisky.
However, discretion is transformed into a pleasant bitterness, and after this rather spectacular collapse in the mouth, this finish seems to save the whole by an unexpected length.

80/100
Jolie_Grenouille

Nose: fresh citrus. (a little peat?) then becomes more floral. Then come the notes of green apple (Granny Smith).
Palate: oily, fruity (green fruit), rather complex as the nose.
The alcohol is well integrated in the mouth as the nose.
Medium to long finish.

80/100
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