Ardbeg ( Official) - Uigeadail - N.A.S - 54,2%
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Alcohol:
- 54,2%
- Bottle details:
- Sherry
- average
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- (89,79)
- price class:
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Johannes_Sauer
Colour: Golden bronze, a little reddish glints, copper (sherry or colouring? Let's say the first), beautiful oily tears.
Nose: One of the most extremely multilayered noses I ever experienced: A soft chemical note (photo developer), suede, english mustard, chinese sweet and sour soup, woodberries, dried cherries, and in the very back there, yes, behind that peat, there seems a very soft sherry note to be lingering around.
Taste: Very earthy, a deep bite in the ground of a scottish highland moore, together with very fine herbal notes, then there is strong licorice (salmiak), later instant coffee powder perhaps mixed with black pepper, bavarian radish, beetroots, horseradish, grapefruit and chillies. With water added something from the sea shows: Smoked salmon, salt and seaweed but also a very delicate caramel arome.
Finish: Very long and very herbal, the bitter earthy note lingers for a long while.
Conc.: It’s hard to believe, but this cocktail of harsh contrasts works and leaves a very balanced picture. A very grand and satisfying whisky, but this is for sure not my favorite every day dram and there has not been many occasions to pour from this bottle which is in my collection for quite a few years.
Tasting date: 2009 07 31
2009Henrik Johansson
Date of tasting: 2/12 2007
Appearance: Amber like old gold. Clear copper like glints
Nose: Peaty bonfires, grilled vegetables and damp leather, liquorice hints, some sulphuric whiffs and solvent elements (nail varnish remover, paint and acid drops) in the background, quite a prickle at cask strength. The reduced nose lends ocean like fumes along with a new found fruitiness mainly cooked fruits stewed apples perhaps. Still quite solvent. Peppery, herbal and cut paper hints also emerge.
Body: Very firm, medium to heavy
Palate: Long and intense. Nice grilled flavours, sweet and full bodied. Very smooth feel and nice development with some hot, prickly burnt sticks taste in the finish along with just a hint of sherried sweetness. Very well balanced and pleasant for the Islay lover
2008
A wonderful smoke and peat smell, very complex but with a kind of mystery announces a great malt. A very great malt even, a real Ardbeg.
The palate is extremely complex. It is one of the most beautiful Islay whiskies I ever tasted. A mix of traditional Ardbeg taste (smoke and peat) with something mysterious and very pleasant. Add a very long and very pleasant finish, recalling all the fragrances detected by nose and mouth, and you'll have one of the best whiskies on earth...
2006The nose is clearly marked by peat smoke and some citrus fruit hints on the background. A touch a spices overall. In the mouth, a nice mix of peat, malt and citrus fruit, with a touch of bitterness giving a special character to the whole. A rather complex and varied palate. A pleasant finish, lingering and warm, which prolongs the happiness this whisky gives.
2004Peat, iodine and smoke, with something more, something sweet and strong at the time, something animal, cocoa are characteristics of a very intense nose.
In the palate, some slightly acid hints, on a background of liquorice, peat and smoke. What a complex whisky! What a fragrances fireworks.
A lingering and warm finish, with some acidity at the begriming, lemon, and clear hints of smoke. What a whisky!
What an Ardbeg !
2005
