7,000+ Whiskey Database
Price
$245
Nose
Tary and fruity aroma, heather honey, ripe
Taste
Sweet and smoky taste, chili, anise, mango, toffee, juniper berries
Finish
Long, smoky and malty end.
Price
$800
Nose
A beautiful, sumptuous but curious mix of tarry smoke, Ardbeg ice cream and black pepper.
Taste
An intense, peppery, ‘fizzy’ mouthfeel gives way to rich flavours of liquorice/aniseed, marzipan, toasted rye bread, charcoal and peppermint.
Finish
Long and lingering, but quite gentle, almost soothing, with more coal tar, aniseed and smoky butter.
Price
$783
Liquor
Ardbeg 21 Master of Malt 1992
Type
ABV
42.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Vanilla, complex fruit, peat, wolf berries and graham lay a solid foundation for some lighter notes of yellow cake, leather.
Taste
Vanilla, muddled fruit, spice, peat, yellow cake and old wood are all that I’m picking up.
Finish
Long, fruity and peaty with hints of smoked meat, spice and wood.
Price
$497
Liquor
Ardbeg 21 PX Finish Darkness
Type
ABV
40.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Musty wood, burnt leaves, burnt cinder toffee, oily peppered mackerel, manuka honey and sooty peat.
Taste
Soft mouth feel, sweet olives, sweet buttery oak, vanilla, lexia raisins, nutty, blackcurrant, Cadbury fruit and nut chocolate bar, mocha sweetness
Finish
Long, dry but also leaves a residual sweetness, aromatic, incense and orange zest.
Nose
Peat fields, salt spray, burnt earth, rotting kelp
Taste
Leather jerky, oily creme, vanilla, iodine, astringent oak
Finish
Charred meat, campfire smoke, long
Price
$797
Nose
Peat fields, salt spray, burnt earth, rotting kelp
Taste
Leather jerky, oily creme, vanilla, iodine, astringent oak
Finish
Charred meat, campfire smoke, long
Nose
A beautiful, sumptuous but curious mix of tarry smoke, Ardbeg ice cream and black pepper.
Taste
An intense, peppery, ‘fizzy’ mouthfeel gives way to rich flavours of liquorice/aniseed, marzipan, toasted rye bread, charcoal and peppermint.
Finish
Long and lingering, but quite gentle, almost soothing, with more coal tar, aniseed and smoky butter.
Nose
Aroma is very pleasant.
Taste
The initial rush of peat and wood smoke is followed by a gentle sweetness with hints of spice.
Finish
Rich and smooth.
Price
$1000
Liquor
Ardbeg 22 1993 Cadenhead Single Cask
Type
ABV
55.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Roasted peaches, Oreos, pulled pork, mint, pine.
Taste
Treacle, espresso, peach pie, flowers/goat cheese, oily.
Finish
Chocolate, coffee, oak, basil, fresh bread, radish, old furniture store, Bounty bar.
Price
$1125
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
This remeains peaty, peppery and distant fruits on the finish.
Price
$500
Liquor
Ardbeg 22yo Twenty-Something
Type
ABV
46.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Aroma is very pleasant.
Taste
The initial rush of peat and wood smoke is followed by a gentle sweetness with hints of spice.
Finish
Rich and smooth.
Price
$600
Nose
Initial bursts of vanilla cream, sweet wood smoke and antique furniture mingle with sweet bubble gum, roasted pinecones and chocolate
Taste
Rich chocolate flavours combine with a silky mouthfee, Vanilla pods and intense dried fruits glide into pine needles and pine smoke
Finish
Herbal notes and incense create a long, lingering finish, rounded off with a hint of spice.