Ardbeg 1990 Airigh Nam Beist

The bottle lists this whisky as distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2008

Nose: Moderate peat, some medicinal smell, grapes, lemon, melissa balm, hysop, carnation

Taste: wine flavour, peat, lemon, melissa, salt. The flavours are more robust in the mouth than in the nose, and form a nice coherent package

Finish: long, but quickly becoming very gentle

Balance: the flavours gel together nicely in this whisky. Some of the herbal and floral elements here seem quite distinctive to my palate. This is an excellent whisky to sip while sitting back and contemplating the meaning of life

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