Alcohol: 40
Region: Islay
Color: Fine Sherry
Nose: Smoke, brine, iodine, dryness
Body: Only medicum to full, but very firm
Palate: A light heavyweight with a punch worthy of a higher division. Skips sweetly along at first, then becomes mean and moody in the lengthy middle of the encounter
Finish: Hefty, lots of iodine
First Tasted: March 2003
Price:
$$
Number:
Don [rating=2]
Steve [rating=3]
Ardbeg 10 year old
This is a whacky whiskey. Big iodine, big peat, very thin body, weak color–like urine if you’d drunk a lot of water; or to be more pleasant, sauvignon blanc.
So I made a blended whiskey–not of the whole bottle. One-to-one with a dark citrine, heavy weight, Auchentoshan.
Delicious. I shall do it again…and again…
I agree with the tasting notes. Long middle with increased iodine at the end. Love it.