Powerfully peaty and immensely satisfying, Ardbeg's Corryvreckan is what happens when the distillery of Islay's Kildalton Coast aims to make a whisky with a particularly medicinal style than its usual expressions. Aptly named after a nearby whirlpool, Corryvreckan is an intense dram that we simply love.
Sticking plasters, buttery, creamy, roast chicken crisps, herbal, almost a hint of pine…
Cream, spices, tingling, fresh fruit, medicinal, plasters, Clementines. Orange peels.
Salty, more medicinal, smoked meats, peat is fleeting, tarmac, chilli, salt.
Astonishing.
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How has nobody mentioned the salted butter long long aftertaste? Shouldn't work but its amazing. Very comple malt, a lot going on in there and nothing dominates, more just let's you sample each flavour as a part of the whole. Love it. For me, best Ardbeg? Definitely. Best whisky? Yeah probably.
This is possibly the smokiest Scotch I ever consumed, and you will ever consume. Nose: overwhelming smokiness; intense; sharp Taste: liquid charcoal; smooth; some butter scotch; long lingering finish; harsher over time
Can’t be as flowery as the previous description but it is intensely medicinal, a bit like Port Charlotte PC10 but I think that is a tad smoother and less of a battering ram on the palate. Having said that... I’m enjoying it with a tad more water than normal to blunt its intensity a little!
I wrote the below ‘too popular..’ review and have since re-tasted. My below review was too harsh but I stand by the sentiment; it does not seem as kick ass impressive as a few years ago (explosive peppercorn pop type finish - sensation not taste - is toned down and while not completely gone it seems smoother) and there remains a white spirity edge to the nose. However it does have more depth when drunk without L10CS as a direct reference. Maybe being new to whisky I’m just experiencing for the first time the normal changes over time found in the industry. Sorry Ardbeg!
The Corryvrecken I tried today is not the same Corryvrecken I was impressed by a year or so ago. Too much white spirit (drink, not cleaning fluid) on the nose and the finish dies away without any real fireworks. Did I imagine it having so much more to offer before ?? Cask Strength Laphroaig 10 just blew it away. Literally.
