Ardbeg Lord Of The Isles Single Malt Scotch Whisky 25 Year Old · 1976 Vintage
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"The nose is sophisticated and rich with black cherries, apricots and milk chocolate, plus sweet peat and honey. Sweet in the mouth with vanilla, toffee, more peat and a pinch of salt. Long in the drying finish with chocolate notes turning from milk to dark."
One of the big future Ardbeg collectables which is getting thinner on the ground as the months go by. Not their best dram by any means, but we're told there are big differences between the different batches / bottles. First appeared in 2001and named after the chiefs of gaelic and viking descent who ruled the western isles during the middle ages.
Most of the malt in this 25 year old dates back to the mid 1970s making it effectively in excess of 30 years old.
A very elegant and complex old Ardbeg with everything working in perfect harmony and all at the perfect volume in relation to each other. Superb!
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Tasting Notes
Colour
Deep amber-gold with coppery, burnished hues and a warm mahogany glow.
Nose
Elegant and delicate, the nose opens with dried apricot and sooty cherry, maritime toffee and honeyed peat. Subtle smoke lingers with charred oak as aromatic tobacco, old leather and perfumed angelica weave through, a whisper of vanilla and coal-tar spice underpinning the refinement.
Palate
A fruity opening of tinned peaches in syrup, with white pepper–infused peat smoke, dried apricot and almond milk. Roasted walnut and smoked lime drift through an oily, syrupy body, touched by old leather and chamois, subtle soap and floral nuances, and a salted vanilla fudge at the finish.
Finish
Spiced and sooty yet fresh and fragrant with smoked lime, anise, white pepper, long and minerally, salted almonds, chocolate limes dropped into seaweed rock pools and some waxy candied peel notes.
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