Ardbeg (The Nectar) - Daily Dram: Still very young Islay Single Malt - 7 y.o. - 62,6%1
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- Bottler:
- The Nectar
- Age:
- 7 years
- Alcohol:
- 62,6%
- Collection:
- Daily Dram
- Bottle details:
- distillation: 2000 bottling: 2007
- cask strength
- en collaboration avec Whisky Fair
- average
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- (83,70)
- price class:
1 note disponible en français
Quite an "Ardbeg nose"... Nice oily peat, smoke, mice farm smells, warmth of hay mixed with cattle smells, iodine, a touch of citrus fruit hidden behind all this; the whole is nicely balanced and announces an excellent whisky.
In the palate, it does not try to dissimulate its power. Whaou. 62% of alcohol cannot be discrete in the mouth of a whisky drinker. However, if your palate is used to cask strengths, it could survive without to much irreversible damage... Nice complexity, with nutty notes (hazelnut) merged with fruity hints, impressions of coffee, moka. Adding some water is quite a good idea for this dram and also for your papilla's. Water addition reveals fully the smoke notes and the complexity in the mouth is enhanced. This whisky gets suddenly very smooth and the nutty notes develop on fine wood by slow increase of the bitterness impression.
The finish is long and the nice memory of the warm cowshed near the sea prolongs the pleasure for long minutes.
2007
