7,000+ Whiskey Database
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.
Price
$450
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 Old Malt Cask (Cask 5120)
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Lemon, shellfish (clam shells), marshmallow whip topping
Taste
Golden syrup of peaty joy.
Finish
The sugars really come out in the finish, really coats the mouth.
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 Old Malt Cask (Rum Finish)
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Initially sweet, before the anticipated tar and leather.
Taste
Soft, aromatic and fruity – runs to phenolics.
Finish
Tar, creosote, leather, runs long and dry.
Price
$402
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991 Signatory (Cask 622 & 623)
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sweet, tangy rum (Agricola), grassy, licorice, metallic, lemon
Taste
Very light, minimal peat (vegetal), sweet, tinned pineapple, white pepper
Finish
Oaky, sweet and sour, tart smoke, marmalade
Price
$361
Liquor
Ardbeg 1991/2001 Murray McDavid
Type
ABV
55.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sea breeze and citrus notes, slightly peated and salty, fresh, hints of cardboard, dried orange peel, wood
Taste
Peat sweetness, honey and carnation as well as white pepper, hints of tart dry wine mixed with heavy spirits as well
Finish
Very long, hot and spicy, peaty and warm.
Price
$402
Nose
Peat, buttery fruit, honey, earthy malt, minerality and saline dusted with bits of cinnamon, clove and vanilla.
Taste
Honey, fruit, peat, roasted grain, vanilla, salted buttered bread and light notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, minerality and saline.
Finish
Long peaty drawl of melon, buttery fruit, saline and roasted grain.