Ardbeg 1975 CA Authentic Collection - 150th Anniversary Bottling
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1975 |
| Bottled Year | 1992 |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라의 아드벡이 남긴 1975년 어센틱 컬렉션, 볏짚빛이 오래전 증류된 귀한 원액을 잔에 맑게 담는다. 17년의 향은 처음엔 수줍지만 곧 레몬과 조개껍질, 해초와 스피어민트, 굴의 해안가 결을 은은하게 펼친다. 잔을 기울이면 그 아래로 디젤과 사과주의 옅은 뉘앙스가 스친다. 57도의 질감이 입안을 감싸며 소금과 차, 옅은 훈연과 잘 익은 오렌지의 낯선 균형을 전한다. 오래된 아드벡답게 피트는 거칠기보다 은은하다. 반세기 전 스피릿이 지닌 고요한 해안가의 결이 귀하다. 피트와 후추가 어우러진 여운이 고요하게 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
quite discreet at first nosing, with faint hints of slightly rancid butter and old nuts, but it gets quickly quite nicer. Rather soft and lemony, maritime but discreetly so. Something bizarrely metallic in the background… But the rest is excellent, with the usual coastal notes (shells and seaweed), notes of lemon balm and spearmint, oysters, whiffs of diesel oil, cider… It’s lightly peaty, that is – maybe it’s the decanter that provokes a quicker fading?
restaurant Palate
the attack is rather weird I must say, with a strange mixture of salt, cardboard, tea, turpentine, pepper and smokiness, with quite some rotting oranges as well. Something lavenderish and soapy like in some versions of a certain other distillery. Not bad but lacking ‘cleanliness’ and complexity. The finish is ok, that is, once everything mingles into something quite nicely peaty and peppery… 77 points . Ardbeg 1975/1990 (57%, Duthie for Samaroli, Flowers, 480 bottles) Already had this one but it didn’t convince me, so this is second try