7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Honey, rich spice, saline, vanilla, and a dark earthy
Taste
Saline, antiseptic, dark sweets, red licorice and a nice woody earthiness
Finish
Long and supple fade of peat, fruit, spice, honey and that woody earthy character.
Price
$55
Nose
Strong notes of saline, fruit, vanilla frosting, honey, citrus and jerky
Taste
Some light notes of hazelnuts, honey, caramel and dentist cotton
Finish
Long peaty fade sprinkled with notes of fruit, wood and caramel.
Price
$50
Nose
Smoky peat comes some nice notes of rich tropical fruit, honey, vanilla, malty sweetness, graham and citrus peel.
Taste
Some nice notes of honey, spice, malty sweetness, grilled bread and graham crackers also come through.
Finish
Long and peaty with notes of malt, fruit, honey, graham and a medicinal character.
Price
$55
Nose
Vanilla ,peat,citrus fruits and circled by clouds of sea spray.
Taste
Sweet vanilla counterbalanced with lemon and lime followed by that surging Ardbeg smoke.
Finish
Long and glorious
Price
$188
Nose
Grapes,cherries and some vanilla.
Taste
Sweet raspberries. Caramel. Sour cherries and oil
Finish
More sugar and fruits and lots of red grape.
Price
$94
Nose
Lemon juice, caramel, smoke, seaweed, tobacco
Taste
Vegetal peat, arepas, butter, red licorice
Finish
Peppery, anise, butter, coffee
Price
$215
Liquor
Ardbeg 15 2000 Chieftain’s
Type
ABV
43.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Tar, chocolate, mint, ash, black pepper
Taste
Lime, ash, chocolate, malt, cream
Finish
Lime sorbet, chocolate, brine, malt, green banana
Price
$416
Liquor
Ardbeg 15 Cadenhead’s 1993
Type
ABV
51.6%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Lemon, rhubarb, mirabelle.Cold ash, medicinal peat, rather oily.Olive oil. White chocolate
Taste
Citrus fruits, encaustic, white grapes, mirabelle.The smoke is very present. Black pepper.
Finish
Finale on peat, cold ashes, dried apricots, mint.
Price
$130
Nose
Plum jam, peat, smoke, maritime notes, salt, oranges, meadow herbs, some fresh fish
Taste
Smoky chocolate, plums, wood notes, ham smoked, pine needles, menthol
Finish
Dry, medium-long, menthol, peat, smoke in the throatTobacco, a lot of dry cold smoke.
Price
$655
Nose
The gentlest of peats, yet deep and confident with an enticing sweetness – a heady mixture of malt and vanillins.
Taste
The smokiness quickly hits the palate and then tapers off. That said, the middle shows an excellent chewy malt alongside a touch of cocoa.
Finish
The peat returns and guarantees and enormously long finale.
Liquor
Ardbeg 18 1993 Master of Malt Single Cask
Type
ABV
56.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Waxy lemon peel, chilli powder, kippers and soap lead to sandy beaches, violets and firm but not aggressive peat, almost like the depths of a smoke-house
Taste
Ashy and salty with a big kick of Ardbegian peat but then comes a minerality and a mouth-coating oiliness with deeper notes of oat cakes and dried currants.
Finish
Sooty charcoal, stewing citrus fruits, seashells and dark chocolate form a sustained finish with fresh mint imperial notes at the front of the mouth.
Price
$175
Liquor
Ardbeg 18 Murray McDavid 1993
Type
ABV
56.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Smoked buttery popcorn. Sweet roasted oak and candle wax.
Taste
Peat smoked butter and toast. Honey-roasted peanut jam. Sweet corn with a hint of lemon
Finish
Long, spiced smoothness.