Hi everyone,
I’ve got some Sherried Ardbeg’s from the Whisky Show today. One of my favourite styles.
First up is the Elements of Islay, 7th edition. These go for about £120 for a 50cl bottle, so let’s hope for 1990’s distillate.
Ar7 56.3%
Colour: Gold
Body: Full
Nose: Lovely, classic Ardy! Lime, Sherry, engine oil, kiln, smoke.
Taste: Full, intense smoke, integrated Sherry, lots of spice, ginger, oak and wood.
Finish: Long length. Very oily, lime and Sherry.
What is there to say, it’s Sherried Ardbeg. It’s great of course. Same score as the Oog though.
84/100
Let compare to some 70’s. A mate at the show got this as his dream dram (thanks Elias!), so I only got to try this very briefly.
Ardbeg 1976 Feis Ile 2004 51.4%
Colour: Amber
Body: Full
Nose: Beautiful. Sherry stewed fruit, lime citrus, peat smoke integrated.
Taste: Hugely oily, amazing lime rind, builds and builds, Sherry, raisin.
Finish: Long length. OMG, amazing, lime.
Single Sherry Cask. Bottled for the Feis Ile festival in 2004 at 27yo.
89/100
An incredible bottling of course, would we expect anything less of Sherried 70’s Ardbeg? No.
More to come!
Reviews #222-#223
Network Average: 75.6
Best Score: 92
Worst Score: 44
0-49 Terrible
50-59 Bad
60-64 Just About OK
65-69 Ok to Good
70-74 Good
75-79 Very Good
80-84 Excellent
85-89 Superb
90+ Magnificent
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