Nose: Chocolate éclair sweets and dry coastal driftwood, toffee and refreshers sweets with but a hint of gentle smoke. Despite these dangerously low levels of peat, this is still characteristically Ardbeg.
Palate: By what alchemy is it possible for something to be both so creamy and spiced so? There’s a lovely herbal development and all the time the sweetness of vanilla and peppermint creams with the semi medicinal undertones of Resolve hangover cure.
Finish: The minty sweetness of the peppermint creams with an interesting little development of sticking plasters.Comment: It still retains the distillery character. But, whilst a very good whisky, this is not a very good Ardbeg...