Ardmore Distillery
ABV 60.8%
Speyside you say, eh? A real region buster, and I loved that sootiness.
Arthur Motley
The Single Malts of Scotland
Brand
1994, 11 Years Old
Expression
Single Malt
Type
11
Age (Years)
2005
Year of Bottling
60.8%
ABV
Speyside
Region/Country
Independent Bottling
Bottling Type
Taster
Nose: Seaweed, creosote, and fish. Potent, sweet and sour. With water there are jelly sweets and silage, horse dung and fag ash.
Palate: Sweet, peaty, and a little coal tar soap.
Finish: Dry and ashy.
Comment: Speyside you say, eh? A real region buster, and I loved that sootiness.
Score: 7.8
Taster
Nose: Light and perfumed top notes (green apple, lemon zest, lily) with some sweet hay, then comes a smokiness like burning stubble. Black pepper.
Palate: Sweet floral start, an rounded centre mixing grass (silage), smoke and a dusty note like angelica. Some coconut.
Finish: Smoked chilli.
Comment: Thanks for bottling this Sukhinder, now, Jim Beam...follow that!!
Score: 7.8
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