Ardbeg 1991 CA Authentic Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1991 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 21년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 52.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
버번 호그스헤드에서 21년을 보낸 시간이 이 위스키의 거센 훈연에 깊이를 더했다. 아일라 아드벡은 짭짤한 바닷물과 모닥불 연기, 소독약과 훈제 아몬드를 떠올리게 하는 복합적인 향을 뿜어낸다. 52.6도의 도수를 타고 입안에는 바닐라와 설탕에 절인 레몬 뒤로 재를 씹는 듯한 매캐한 훈연이 밀려든다. 옅은 금빛 아래로 이어지는 여운은 길고 재를 닮았으며, 아드벡다운 짭조름한 연기가 끝까지 감돈다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
it’s typical modern Ardbeg, with probably less tarry and straightly phenolic notes than older ones, but maybe more brine and seawater on the one side, and garden bonfire on the other side (burning leaves and hay). There’s a feeling of menthol cigarettes – their smoke – and then a pretty massive development on all things medicinal, especially antiseptic. Also a newly opened pack of smoked almonds? Even heavily smoked salmon? Nice complexity. After fifteen minutes: more lemon juice. With water: yess! It became both drier and (even) smokier. Motor oil, hot tarmac in the middle of July ;-), this menthol again, a plate of smoked fish… And grapefruits
restaurant Palate
starts as sweet as Ardbeg can be, before the heavy smoke kicks in. So vanilla and crystallised lemon, then an acrid smokiness that’s exactly what we were expecting. This feeling of ‘eating an ashtray’. This one’s also moderately salty this time. With water: excellent. I don’t know if this is a vatting from various sources but it does taste like a single cask, meaning it’s very ‘focused’ now, very ‘precise’. Beautiful lemon, almond oil and touches of seashells. Say clams. Perfect smoke
timer Finish
long, not that salty, smoky, ashy and Ardbeggy. You bet!