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 |
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Don | [rating=2] |
Steve | [rating=3] |
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Rating: 3.6/5 (50 votes cast)
Ardbeg 10 year old, 3.6 out of 5 based on 50 ratings
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.