Ardmore 12yo 56.2% James Macarthur's
Returning to the 2000's with this Ardmore from James MacArthur's. Ardmore is another speyside distillery producing whisky with additional peat, but they do also make non-peated whisky. This smells totally different, really herbal with much more alcohol influence. Well, I guess none of the whisky here has had the commodity of reciding in a sherry caskt then...(?) Allright, the taste is herbal, peppery and again very influenced by the high abv. Actually, it gets a bit more aromatic and also oaky and buttery.
The difference between new and old is immense, but this is good: 6
Ardmore NAS 1977-? 40% G&M
Another one from bygone days bottled by G&M outside the CC-series. It smells very sweet, camphor and marshmallows, like flour sugar. The taste is also very sweet and light, it seems to not be peated, like the current NAS-version from the distillery is. There's caramel, champagne, walnuts, rum and sugar peas. The aftertaste is short and hardly worth to mention. It's a good whisky allright, and at it's time probably a good value for money malt, but this vintage would probably hit a price far above its less than gourmet-standard on todays market.
a nice and clean malt, a beginnerswhisky: 5.5
Ardmore NAS 46% OB
Should be about 6-8yo this one. A strongly peated highlander, and it is interesting to see what generous amounts of peat does to a mild highlander. It smells very rough, white pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, parsley and yeast. Not as smoky as I envisioned, perhaps it's local peat, and of course the flora is quite different in the Highland than on Islay. The taste is quite straight-forward with garlic, chilli, honeybread and snow peas.
A classy youngster: 7.5
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