Ardbeg 1975 Cask 4699

Ardbeg SMWS 33.70 - “Keith Richards Meets Socrates Classics”

Nose: Sweet smoke up front, with some honey sugars, and some hints of meat bouillon, which one finds sometimes in sherry matured whiskies. Palate: Wow. Ultra ashy, like putting your tongue inside a full ashtray that has not been emptied a few days, in a bar. Ashes, dry ashes, galore. later sweet sherry notes mixed with smoke, tar, soot, charred...

Score 90/100

Ardbeg Kildalton 2014

I had heard lots of good things about the Ardbeg Kildalton, but it was not until Sven C. offered me a sample that I was able to finally taste it. Consequently, my expectations were high. The nose is rather soft with nice notes of ashes and soot, the obligatory citrus and a hint of plasticine. A drop of honey and a hint of dried apricots. Smoked...

Score 84/100

Ardbeg Alligator

The Ardbeg Alligator was the first whisky I rated as expensive that I bought. It was a few years back a couple of weeks before Christmas, when, in a busy store, my friend and I probably looked too young to be taken seriously as whisky drinkers. I had a taste however and went home with a bottle (haven’t shopped there since, though…) And now, a...

Score 94/100

Ardbeg Uigeadail

Bottled in 2009. This is reviewed at about 48 % ABV Some tearing on the glass and it is quite oily. Nose: Leather, charcoal and some peat. The alcohol is a bit sticky on the nose and it is difficult to sense any details. With more water the leather becomes the only smell and the alcohol is more protruding. This is not as complex as I expected....

Score 85/100