Ardbeg Distillery Limited
Ardbeg The Ultimate Vintage Y2K 23 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Ardbeg The Ultimate Vintage Y2K 23 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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Ardbeg Vintage_Y2K 23 Years Old
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- Oloroso Sherry Cask
- Bourbon Cask
- NON-CHILLED FILTERED
- AGE 23 YEARS OLD
- ABV 46.0%
- Colour Pale Amber
Aroma
Herbal, sweet and fragrant, with a subtle, distant perfumed smokiness. Next a quirky, zesty note like lemon balsam emerges, along with a suggestion of linseed oil and candied walnuts. A splash of water and the fragrance intensifies, emitting heather honey, a touch of creosote and the tiniest trace of tent canvas.
Taste
The texture is fizzy and effervescing (sherbety), with a real, vibrant effervescence on the tongue. At first the flavour is intensely sweet, then shifts as aniseed, toffee, digestive biscuits, peppermint, menthol, tar and coffee grits burst through.
Finish
The sooty/tarry flavours keep building, until they finally dissolve into a long, lingering aftertaste of antiseptic lozenges, bitter oranges and oak tannins.
ARDBEG VINTAGE_Y2K 23 YEARS OLD
While the world braced for computerised chaos at the turn of the millennium, Dr. Bill Lumsden and the Ardbeg whisky creation team were quietly working their magic on something far more important - a serendipitous rare stock that would never come close to being replicated.
Laid down in the year 2000 and matured in Oloroso sherry and bourbon casks, Ardbeg Vintage Y2K is intensely sweet and classically smoky, with notes of lemon balsam, heather honey and creosote giving way to peppermint, aniseed and ground coffee.
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