Ardbeg 1972
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1972 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | 32년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.5% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 남부 킬다턴의 짭조름한 바닷바람과 진한 이탄 늪이 이 1972년 빈티지의 모든 면을 관통한다. 깊은 황금빛이 잔에 잠겨 있다. 향에서 바다 소금과 마른 해초, 오래된 가죽이 또렷하게 올라온다. 입에서는 훈제 베이컨과 검은 후추, 옅은 약초가 두꺼운 질감으로 흐른다. 32년의 시간이 거친 피트를 부드럽게 다듬었고 여운에는 폐쇄 직전의 시간감이 길게 이어진다.
AITasting 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)