Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Rich amber gold with mahogany glints; heavy, slow legs at cask strength
Nose
The marriage of Ardbeg peat and sherry cask — arguably the distillery's greatest achievement. Intense phenolic peat smoke with deep sherry richness: Christmas cake, raisins, figs, dates, dark chocolate, and espresso. Treacle, burnt orange, and leather. Maritime tar and iodine. The nose keeps deepening — smoke, sherry, smoke, sherry in alternating waves. Named after the loch that feeds the distillery
Palate
Extraordinary complexity. Peat smoke and dark sherry fruit intertwine inseparably — neither dominates. Christmas cake soaked in peat smoke. Dark chocolate, espresso, treacle, burnt orange peel, and rich dried fruit (fig, date, raisin). Leather, tobacco, and old library books. Maritime salt and smoked bacon. At cask strength, every flavor is amplified but remains in balance. Adding water releases a maple syrup sweetness and heather. Consistently one of the highest-rated whiskies in the world
Finish
Immense, multi-layered finish. Peat smoke and sherry fruit continue their dance through an impossibly long finish. Dark chocolate, espresso, treacle, and burnt orange. Leather and tobacco emerge. The maritime salt persists as a thread throughout. A finish measured in quarters of an hour, not minutes
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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