7,000+ Whiskey Database
Price
$1262
Liquor
Ardbeg 1976 Connoisseurs Choice
Type
ABV
40%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Full of sweet toffee, perfumed, polished oak wood, honeyed, bourbon vanilla wood, vanilla essence.
Taste
Caramel and toffee on the palate too, gingerbread; cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, polished oak wood, baked apple.
Finish
Medium-short, more dark and caramelised sugars perhaps a touch of earthy peppermint and chocolate orange.
Price
$10880
Liquor
Ardbeg 1976 Single Cask 2398
Type
ABV
51.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Some wax and some rancio, plus lots of burnt rubber and alcohol and hints of orange marmalade.
Taste
Lots of roasted coffee beans too.
Finish
Cooked apple, compote, clove, orange marmalade.
Price
$1715
Nose
Cinnamon,dessert sweetness is uncovered with lemon curd and bitter almonds followed by vanilla.
Taste
Sweet and scented with milk chocolate, mandarins and parma violets.
Finish
Very long and scented with woodsmoke, mandarins and cocoa.
Nose
Very fine, ashy peat.
With aeration a little citrus.
Pepper, eucalyptus, almonds.
Taste
Oilier, more herbaceous,
Lemon, candied and in zest. Orange, quince.
Pepper, light salted butter caramel.
Barbecue smoke.
Finish
Longer, on ashy peat, smoke, pepper, a very light bacon, and graphite.
Price
$1853
Liquor
Ardbeg 1978 Spirit of Scotland
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Very fine, ashy peat.With aeration a little citrus.Pepper, eucalyptus, almonds.
Taste
Oilier, more herbaceous,Lemon, candied and in zest. Orange, quince.Pepper, light salted butter caramel.Barbecue smoke.
Finish
Longer, on ashy peat, smoke, pepper, a very light bacon, and graphite.
Price
$1832
Liquor
Ardbeg 1979 Connoisseurs Choice
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Smells slightly mintty mixed with pine needles, lime juice and dry oats, quite a big cereal note
Taste
Peat, pepper & ash is a little lime and some bitter grapefruit but it is in the background.
Finish
Peaty, peppery and distant fruits on the finish.
Price
$315
Liquor
Ardbeg 1979 Spirit of Scotland (2004)
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Smells slightly mintty mixed with pine needles, lime juice and dry oats, quite a big cereal note
Taste
Peat, pepper & ash is a little lime and some bitter grapefruit but it is in the background.
Finish
Peaty, peppery and distant fruits on the finish.
Price
$270
Liquor
Ardbeg 1990 for Symposion International Sweden
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Nose of deep sherry, sweet and nectary like Pedro Ximenez, with strong toffee
Taste
Palate is smokey with sweet smoked tea flavors and some dusty/dirty aspectsand peat
Finish
The finish gets all red pepper
Price
$550
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 DL Platinum Old & Rare
Type
ABV
53.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sweet iodine, sea salt, and peat smoke waft upwards.
Taste
Full in body, and a sweet vanilla note comes to the fore before further hits of iodine, sea salt, and peat arrive.
Finish
Spectacularly long, lingering, with a big hint of peat smoke.
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 Malts of Scotland
Type
ABV
48.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Rather a very lovely leathery nose, that also combines cigars, polished woods, camphor, pinesap, black olive brine and a few drops of oyster sauce.
Taste
Bitter oranges, leather, tobacco, Mandarine Impériale, a little chocolate, some pepper.
Finish
Very long and almost ever-lasting.
Price
$419
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 Master of Malt
Type
ABV
48.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sooty notes at first, hiding deeper wafts of chocolate truffle and thick malt.
Taste
Oak spice and bonfire embers. Still a little bit chocolatey and coastal.
Finish
A long, full finish. Sea air persists.
Price
$704
Nose
Lots of peat, smells young, some sweet fruit cocktail notes.
Taste
Sweet and peaty, nicely balanced.
Finish
Peat smoke off a doused campfire.