Dram of the Day: ARDBEG ALLIGATOR SCOTCH WHISKY 51.2% RARE LIMITED RELEASE

Ferocious "Alligator" charring of new American white oak casks has created a spicy, dark dram of hidden depths, within which lurk deep tarry coffee, barbecue sizzle and sooty aromas.

On The Nose : The warning comes in smoked root ginger and barbecue sauce, white chocolate, cumin and warm oak shavings lie in wait.

The Palate: Rearing up hot and spicy, smoked and charred with a leathery and sooty mouthfeel. Smoky pak choi and barbecue bite thru, White chocolate, ginger and black bean sauce roll around and around.

The finish is slow and long with mocha espresso and ginger while the white cigar smoke slowly ebbs away.

A true beast of a whisky not for the faint hearted. 

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Ardbeg Single Malt Whisky 17 year old 50% 70cl Rum Finished

Ardbeg Scotch Whisky Distillery officially founded in 1815.  Water Source Loch Uigeadail

Islay region. South Shore district
Old Malt Cask. Bottled by Douglas Laing & Co.
Distilled 1991 March  Bottled 2008 October.
This is one of 316 bottles charged from a refill hogshead and finished in a Rum Cask DL REF 4557

Ardbeg Single Malt Whisky 17 year old 50% 70cl Rum Finished  Tasting note

Nose : Sweetly home baked with burnt cookies and late developing peat.

Palate : Opens sweetly then builds to warm tar and creosote.

Finish : Dry with lingering bonfire ashes and a peppery quality. (J)

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Ardbeg 30 year old 1975, 47.8% Platinum Selection Whisky

Islay Region
Distilled 1975 bottled 2005 at 47.8%
Platinum Selection Bottling by Douglas Laing
One of 274 .
Tasting Notes.
Its nose is characteristically aromatic, earthy, sweet, tarry and distinctively peated, a real islay smiler.

The Palate is attractively rounded and full, manifestly oceanic with expected peaty characteristics, still maintaining an attractive sweet profile.

This runs to a finish which is smoky, dryly spiced with more late tar qualities evident.

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Ardbeg Uigeadail 54.2% Cask Strength Islay Malt Whisky

Nose

The undiluted nose is deep and rounded – chocolate caramels and barley sugar combine with dates, raisins and smooth sherry notes. Later, you find leather and linseed oil. With water the sweetness gives way to malted honeycomb, with flowering currants emerging through the smokey sweetness of a well fired fruit pudding

Taste

Sweet, chewy and oily with a silky mouth-feel, the flavour is initially sweet, revealing fruit cake and treacle. This is followed by smoked, barbecued or honey roast food with the slightest hint of olives.

Finish

Long, both sweet and dry with honey, treacle and a trace of lint.

Ardbeg Uigeadail

Ardbeg Lord of the Isles 25 year old 46%

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

Ardbeg Lord of the Isles is the supreme expression of Ardbeg.

Tasting Note.

At 25 years old this whisky embodies the richness, depth and sweetness of all Ardbegs.

Bottled at 46% and non chill filtered for the 'natural' flavours and aromas of Ardbeg to develop.

Light gold in colour and powerful in character; this supreme expression of Ardbeg celebrates a period in Scottish history which saw Islay as the stronghold of Somerled, the Lord of the Isles.

Beautifully packaged and presented in a burnished green case, this whisky is exceptional in every way.

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(Ardbeg) Serendipity 12 year old 40% Scotch Malt Whisky

The unforeseen but fortuitous union of two great single malts.
(You’d be forgiven in thinking it was deliberate)

Note the lack of single in the title.

Supreme Blended Malt Scotch Whisky.

As we all know, mixing Ardbeg with anything other than water could be considered a mortal sin but the men who make it are – belive it or not – are mere mortals, mistakes can happen.

A recent such mix-up resulted in the creation of a supreme blended malt whisky made up of two parts of 1992 Glen Moray to eight parts of a very much older Ardbeg. At 40%, chill filtered and peaty but with a refreshing lightness, it was a happy accident. So they named it Serendipity (for surely it’s a pity to waste it).

Tasting Note
The predominant and robust peaty flavour of Ardbeg, the ultimate Islay Malt, is subtly softened by the lighter tones of the Glen Moray. At the lighter strength of 40% and chill-filtered it is a rare opportunity for Ardbeg lovers and the uninitiated to experience a lighter taste of Islay.

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