A phenomenal whisky packing powerful peaty deliciousness, Ardbeg 10 Year Old is a favourite of many whisky lovers around the world. Produced on the Kildalton Coast of Islay, this single malt matures for a decade before being bottled without any chill-filtration. If you're after a whisky full of coastal air, smoke and more, this is exactly what you want.
A ridge of vanilla leads to mountain of peat capped with citrus fruits and circled by clouds of sea spray.
Sweet vanilla counterbalanced with lemon and lime followed by that surging Ardbeg smoke that we all know and love.
Long and glorious; sea salted caramel and beach bonfire smoke.
Precise balance, big smoke and non-chill filtered. This is why this is such a famous dram.
Tastes like linement filtered through old Band-Aids. Awful.
I've had a couple of Ardbeg's other bottlings--Uigeadail, Corryvreckan--and they're both mysterious and fascinating in their own ways. Lagavulin drips with history and authority; Laphroaig is approachable and fun in cocktails. Ardbeg 10 is, for me, is the simple perfection of scotch's most essential flavors: peat, malt, sea-salt, iodine, earth. There's nothing extraneous; the flavor is leaner than any other Islay scotch, but it's perfectly-balanced. It's my favorite scotch, and thus my favorite whisky, and thus my favorite booze in the world. It's an extremely dry scotch, almost bone dry, and it's the color of pale straw. It tastes like peat smoke and mineral-rich earth beaten by the cold Atlantic. Its taste is more evocative than any other whisky: I imagine myself in cold Scotland under a cloudy sky. Laphroaig tastes like a campfire, rounded out by oak and a mild sweetness. Lagavulin tastes like a peat fire in an ancient library full of old books. Ardbeg tastes like peat and the ocean. Perfection. It's the standard against which I judge every other whisky.
A very special Scotch single malt. No colouring nor chill filtering. Enjoyed the peatiness and fragrance that lingers on in the glass after I finish the drink. Unlike the Laphroaig, there is no antiseptic smell-just pleasantness
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+ + peanut oil. blood oranges. figs. dried nectarines. cola gummies. marzipan. peppermint. slight hint of blood sausage. drying. peppermint completely takes over with enough time and water. like menthol Kools. ( - February 21st guy (who does notice he misspelled the word 'smoky'))
