Tasting note Deep and rounded on the nose with chocolate caramels and barley sugars combining with dates, raisins and smooth sherry notes. Later, leather and linseed oil will appear. Sweet, chewy and oily with a silky texture. The flavour is initially sugary, revealing fruitcake and treacle, followed by barbecued or honey-roasted notes and the slightest hint of olives. A long finish, both sweet and dry with honey, treacle and a trace of lint. Country: Scotland Region: Islay Style: Single malt Bottle size: 70cl
Originally owned by a notorious band of smugglers, the Ardbeg distillery was officially established as a legal commercial concern when the MacDougalls of Islay obtained their production licence in 1815. Ardbeg’s white-washed walls can be found nestling in a rocky cove on Islay’s southern tip along the famous road from Port Ellen. Ardbeg is, perhaps, the most peaty malt whisky in the world - certainly of all the Islay malts. Ardbeg’s strength is that it does not flaunt t