Ardbeg 1972 Single Cask
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1972 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | 32년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
a little closed at first, even slightly dusty. Some tropical fruit and some smoke, plus some sea air. When nosing deeper, some fine farmy aromas do appear. Some say all 1975 were the same whisky that had been vatted once, and then kept in some steel tanks. But when comparing the ‘2001’ with the ‘2000’, the whiskies indeed are different. The 2000 is bolder, stronger and peatier so beautiful, so complex! Well done Douglas Laing – oops, Ardbeg! A whole beehive (wax, pollen, honey, propolis…) Grandma’s cupboard, camphor. Hints of eucalyptus and turpentine. Smoke, garden bonfire… Perhaps it could have been smokier, but it’s so complex!
restaurant Palate
bolder than the nose suggested. Peppery attack, with even some chilli. Gets nicely fruity (apricot), but also a little bitter. The finish is quite long, on some pink grapefruit. A good one, yet not as satisfying as the 2000. But that ‘might’ be batch variation. 86 points . Ardbeg 32 yo 1972/2004 (48.3%, OB Manager’s Choice for Oddbins, bourbon cask #866, 239 bottles) This one is said to have been sold out within one hour and thirty minutes. Colours: straw splendid, waxy attack. Gets grassy (liquorice stick) and farmy (hay). Perhaps the mouth is slightly less complex than the nose. Pine syrup? Long finish, with some Chartreuse and Jägermeister (a little bitter). 93 points - and £300, roughly. Addition: strange, even if some have said it's been sold very quickly, oddbins still have it on their website. Ardbeg 1976/2004 (51.4%, OB for Feis Isle 2004, sherry butt #2398, 504 bottles)
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