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Ardbeg
Scotland
Single Malt
A special edition single malt launched on Ardbeg Day 2014 - a day celebrated both at the Islay festival, Fèis Ìle and around the world. Auri(Gold)verdes(Green) is a name used to refer to Brazil's sports teams (including the football team, of course), but in this case it refers to the golden whisky and the iconic Ardbeg green bottle it dwells within. Striker!
This bottle was part of a private collection - if you'd like more detailed photos just get in touch!
Smoked bacon, Tarry ropes on a not-long-dry seashore. Loads of Vanilla. Pomegranates, Fizzy-sweets (refreshers, Sherbet Lemons) and Lemon-zest. Not convinced I’d have got Mocha, if not for the autosuggestion, but it’s definitely there now I think about it.
Initially sweet, restrained, more of that bacon, but this time it’s been cured with Muscovado sugar and maybe a touch of Juniper? Progresses through the inevitable onslaught of peat, but it’s there in a slightly different way – more ‘high’, medicinal phenols than we've come to expect with Ardbeg. From the palate alone, I’m not even sure I’d peg this as Ardbeg – I might be tempted to go two distilleries further down the coast…
Long. Cocoa, Charred corners of a pulled pork butt, becomes more ashy as it fades, but clearly from good honest casks albeit with charred heads.
It’s good. Funnily though, as the spirit’s not being bombarded with finishes/extreme cask-techniques the difference between this and the 10yo is strangely pronounced. There are palpable elements of Bowmore, and Laphroaig in this dram, whilst it does absolutely retain the overall Ardbeg character we know and love. To my mind that’s a good thing.
I think is a great Ardbeg more than one hater will end up eating their hat once it starts winning awards. Difficult to get- Yes Too much marketing- Yes Pricy- Not yet Great Whisky- No doubts
Picked up a regular bottle at my local Ardbeg distributor. Also bought a gold bottle version; don't know why it was for sale, and it was the only one, but it is a damn cool bottle. Definitely can smell the vanilla and warmer notes on top of the traditional Ardbeg medicinal peat. Subtle variation on a classic. I highly recommend grabbing some before it is all gone.
I'm really not sure what Ardbeg has to do with the Brazilian soccer team, but just comes across as a marketing / PR bulls**t. Either way, it's really not too bad---personally, prefer the Corryvrecken to this. It's available in the US around $80-90 USD.
Why dont you pre-book so that it is a level playing field and fair to all.Different time zones make it unfair to a lot of us.
Fantastic dram but could do with a longer finish. Still worth every penny.