Single Malt
Scotland
1 Feb 1991
2 Jan 2015
Bourbon
Hold on to your hats, folks, because we've gone and bottled some 23-year-old Ardbeg! That's right, our Single Cask Series grows larger with the addition of a 23-year-old single malt Scotch whisky, which was distilled in February 1991 by the legendary Islay distillery, set aside to mature in a bourbon cask and eventually bottled in January 2015 with an outturn of 216 bottles.
Serge from WhiskyFun scored it 92 Points, noting on the palate that it's "almost on par with the best of the 1970s" and "I don’t think you could do better."
Citrus, grapefruit perhaps, and papaya with honey, Belgian nougat pieces and measured charcoal sitting just beneath with lavender toffee blondies.
More prominent peat, still quite sooty but there's plenty of fruit in there too after a couple of sips - mouthwatering smoky starfruit and some Buttercup syrup.
Flapjacks, the return of those blondies, and the peat goes on and on of course, just as you'd hope.
A simply tremendous whisky. A couple of drops of water help open its fruitier side, but this one's a pleasure however you choose to drink it.
