onsdag 30. april 2014

Ardbeg Uigeadail 54.2% OB L6 & Ardbeg Corryvreckan 57.1% OB 2012



Ardbeg Uigeadail 54.2% OB L6

Time for a mini vertical. L6 means it's a batch from 2006, the rest of the batch# reads 219 11 39 4ML, there, now you know which one it is! ;-). The color is golden auburn. It smells sulphur, acrylic, leather, nail polish, grenadine, cherry sauce, licorice, carraway, rhubarb, very subtle and pleasant, no peat-monster... The taste is old sherry, mellow citrus, orange juice and grapefruit, leather, tobacco, cherries in syrup, some nutmeg and caramel too. This is a very good young Ardbeg, though far from an expected one with these sweet notes. The finish is long on caramel, peat smoke and butter. Adding some water. Now it becomes lighter, some seaweed and sunflower oil. A strange one with water.

At full strength, this one is sublime: 8.5


Ardbeg Corryvreckan 57.1% OB 2012

One bottled six years later. And whilst Uigeadail very much consists of sherry-matured Ardbeg, this one is dominated by bourbon wood. This is just a slightly paler version than the Uigeadail. It smells stronger, smoky, peat, tar, iodine, sea salt, old ropes, cedar wood, rubber, charcoal, vanilla, camphor, tangerines, boiled cabbage. The taste is peaty, peppery, salt, hay, paraffin, charcoal, salmi, banana, lemon zest, vinegar, soap, furniture polish, sour beer. The finish is smoky, peppery, leather, black pepper, charcoal, iodine, cod liver, pineapple, cardamum. Adding water to this on makes for a more bitter and peppery whisky. I find it hard to believe the Uigeadail and the Corryvreckan comes from the same distillery.

A modern peat monster: 6.5



Next tasting: Talisker Distillery

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