Ardbeg 10 Year Old
Peaty Frazzles
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Review by @benellefsen
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Nose - Big hit of peat, Medicinal (more so than bottlings of a few years ago), Iodine, Chlorine, Smoky Bacon, Frazzles (corn-based bacon flavoured snack), slightly sweet, Lemon-Drizzle Cake, Peppermint right on the death?
Palate - Creamy, smoky, vanilla-laden, oranges, cloves, salty and tangy.
Finish - Peaty to the last, but a great creamy seam of flavour runs through the finish. Salty home-made fudge.
Water brings out even more peat on the nose, and a real coal-tar character that was hiding behind the barley without water.
This is (astonishingly) even better than the 10yo of a year or two ago, when my understanding is that older and rarer casks were being used to make up the blend. Seems that Glenmorangie have really, really got it right with the new production.
Awesome. There's no other word for it. No other distillery in the world has anything anywhere near this impressive as their base expression.
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It's awesome to read reviews of people who have been into whiskies long enough that they can compare vintages, and have a well enough developed palate to be able to describe whisky favours and smells to this level of depth...