A limited edition Ardbeg released during the Fèis Ìle whisky festival. Aged in a combination of bourbon as well as some Manzanilla sherry casks, it was produced for 'Ardbog Day', which was celebrated around the world on 1st June 2013.
This bottle was part of a private collection - if you'd like more detailed photos just get in touch!
Sea salt and brine with some dark fruit and hints of barbecue. Maple syrup, plum, orange, mint and more herbal notes with a touch of tomato vine. White coffee develops.
Big - it feels like all the moisture is being sucked out of your mouth at first but in a good way(!). Salt crusted raisins, rich nuttiness, pickled onions. Sounds odd but it’s honestly superb!
There's red chilli heat on the finish as well as paprika.
Ardbeg should be celebrated for their measured use of Manzanilla casks here - one of the best bottlings at Fèis Ìle 2013.
Very good Ardbeg, similar to Uigeadail but not as much toffee, fruits and smoke with a hint of BBQ, feel very lucky to have found this bottle collecting dust in a corner of a store, who didn't know what they had.
very nice whisky smoky small as you want and bit fruity on the nose and a very smal sugar test !!! tot much $$$$ but worth it !!! the reason why i give 9 insted of 10
I was hoping for a new dram from Ardbeg that would blow the Uigeadail away, but the Ardbog didnt. Dont get me wrong, its a great Ardbeg but not mind blowing by any means. At £80 I would rather buy a bottle of Laphroaig Cairdeas 2013. /mike-stockholm-sweden
My first Ardbeg ever and there are bottles all over the place here in Dallas... I can't wait to try the rest of the Ardbegs.
I’m not the person who puts water in his whisky, I very very rarely do so – almost never, but Ardbog seemed to have some kind of secret it wanted to reveal. So here I am – couple of evenings later – with a teaspoon of water over a Glencairn glass... I sit back in a cool balcony, swirl it around, take a minute ... and then feel an immediate kick of cinnamon – you know the kind of kick that rockstar guitarists do... The very distinctive flavour of cheap bitterish cinnamon biscuit cake from the 80s. Very cinnamony indeed. The water really calms down Ardbog and let’s it tell a very intriguing sequel. The taste? The very much Lagavulin–y pine nuts spring forward. And they remain quite comfortably there in the finish, which is rather nutty. Some soviet tiny candies in a tin box, something very herbal too. The mouthfeel is fairly bitter and grassy ... the bitterness is on the verge of crushed pills in a spoon, but knows when to stop and doesn’t cross the line. At times you feel you could briefly be tricked into thinking it’s actually Lagavulin 16. I usually don’t stop after one – or five – glasses, but Ardbog is the kind of whisky you get overwhelmed – or rather, satisfied – with, after that one hug. It’s a whisky I know I’m gonna enjoy on those cold autum...... I mean – summer – evenings. It’s the malt you wanna share with your two best friends and sip it in a friendly silence.
