Official tasting notes:
Nose: SMOKE rises with a cloying sweetness. Intense, pungent and aromatic, a distinctive farmyard scent drifts, along with a crunchy aroma, like CREOSOTE or tarry rope. A splash of water disturbs the vapours and DARK CHOCOLATE CREAM billows, laced with a ribbon of SMOKED ARTICHOKE.
Palate: Ardbeg’s UNTAMED darker flavours and notes have risen. A burst of bittersweetness SURGES, disturbing ashy coal DUST and casting a HAZE of CARDAMOM, peppermint and COFFEE grits. CLOUDS OF dark chocolate and mentholic eucalyptus ROLL IN, OBSCURING the fruit and floral notes usually found at the heart of ARDBEG. Wisps of ANISEED twists, CINNAMON balls and antiseptic lozenges FLOAT on the palate.
Finish: The aftertaste lingers LONG and BOLD, with an almost anaesthetising sensation.
Ardbeg ‘Heavy Vapours’ Committee Release 700ml 50.2%
$319.00
2023 Release to Celebrate Ardbeg Day.
Details
700ml: 50.2% alc
Region: Islay
Committee Release
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon
Bottler: Ardbeg distillery
Release Date: 18th of April 2023 (AU)
Description:
Ardbeg ‘Heavy Vapours’ was created by Dr. Bill Lumsden for the 2023 celebration of Ardbeg Day, the Islay Festival of Music and Malt (called Fèis Ìle in Gaelic).
The whisky was distilled without a purifier and the Distillery tells us that “The legendary purifier on the still – responsible for Ardbeg’s exalted balance – is nowhere to be seen. And this whisky – Ardbeg Heavy Vapours – is the consequence. The familiar harmony between peat and floral fruitiness has been distorted. What have risen are the untamed darker flavours and notes, gathering and filling the senses. It is an ominous dram of dramatic, aromatic pungency.”
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