Distillery Profile

Taste rating:3/:4

Region: Highland

Malty, some peat.

I'm looking forward to trying this, Ardmore (when good) has the most authentic peatiness of any mainland distillery but can be variable, this, the first OB bottling we have seen on general release, is the first new release from it's new owners (Jas.) Beam Global who won Ardmore with their acquisition of Teacher's (and Laphroaig).

It says; 'Non-chill filtered. Matured for a final period in 19th Century style "Quarter Casks".

Now I've sold a bottle and pursuaded the buyer to give me a taste...

It's as good as I had hoped, there is slight smoke from a tarry base, then fruit, suspect shellfish and cleaning solution (carbolic? no). To taste I've got 'good, very good. Warming peat and smouldering fire. A hot swallow with a long sweet and fruity smokey finish, excelent.'

Best neat, it's an ace.

On the Malt Whisky Flavour Map we reckon this belongs in square: E8
Complex / Light / Smoky

A sanctioned bottling on behalf of the producer by Gordon & MacPhail.

A fine creamy, oily dram with some fruit & nut, actually quite complex and well flavoured.

An ace! loads of peat, more than from any other Ardmore but not so much that it is overpowering. Sweet and fruity, almost akin to a Laphroaig Quarter Cask.

A Signatory independent bottling.

A signatory independent singlel cask strength bottling.