Tasting - Four Ardbeg 1975 Single Cask
Ardbeg 1975/2006 40.9%
C: yellow straw
23 N: peach, pear, melon sweet, followed by some ashes, peat, a little tar, baked wood cask, then some tangerine, pine nut, fresh grass, vanilla and cream, complexes!
23 T: full, some fruit sweet w/ a little sour, spicy, but the peat melt into the fruits very well. Round and smooth, a little ash and tar in the middle of tongue, oil, some truffle and cocoa
23 B: very good balanced! the peat, cream, ash, vanilla, truffle, and even some lemonade, very well mixed. Very easy to drink and enjoyable! Quite an excellent Ardbeg! Thx to Kingfisher!
C: light yellow
22 N: iodine, banana oil, a little ash, followed by some lemon peels, green tea, lemon grass, rosemary and peppermint, lightly peat, actually very look like green grass tea w/ some herbs and spices
22 T: full, lemon grass, ashes tar, more peat comes up, peat sweet, coated, banana oil, a little bitterness of orange peels, white truffle. Good texture
22 B: good both for N&T, more ashes and iodine influent, maybe not the kind of splendid one, but also very easy to drink and enjoyable. Still classic old Ardbeg style.
Ardbeg 1975/
C: amber, straw
22 N: some sulphur, ash, tar and kelp from begin, followed by some ripe orange, resin, and quite some sour fruits, figs, peat, then some wet polish leather, bacon, cured meat, and a little match box, burn rubber, and medicine liquid
21 T: full, quite warm, sulphur, peaty, orange, cocoa, dark chocolate, obviously bitterness of orange peels, match box, wood cask, and some smoky ham, tobacco
22 B: good balanced, rich, compact, oxidized metal? Not a very pleasant old Ardbeg(not typical)
Thx to Kingfisher!
Ardbeg 1975/2000 25yo 50% OMC 702Bts
C: gold
24 N: crystallized fruits, Christmas cake, some melon peels, fresh pears, ripe green apple, apricot, of course lightly ashes, sea weed w/ elegant soft peat
24 T: medium, a little salty, peppery, sea weed, some citrus, tangerine peels, lemon peels, lime, frosting white sugar, liquorices, a little bitterness of lemon peels but soon cover by the peat sweet.
24 B: excellent balanced, it seems that the impact is a little bit weak, but the peat, salty sea weed brings its complexity which mixed all ingredients quite balanced, especially lingering the fresh pears, green tea with peat. That’s called perfect combination!