Ardbeg 1974 GM Spirit of Scotland
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
really powerful, almost burning. A lot of pollen and honey, whole beehives actually. Gets then more coffee-ish, with also quite some milk chocolate and vanilla flavoured toffee. Too strong I must say. Water makes it a little shyer (which was unexpected) but there are nice notes of old Sauternes and apricot jam
restaurant Palate
very hot but quite entrancing, with loads of passion fruits ala Bowmore as well as crystallised oranges. Not much else when undiluted, that is… With water: gets beautifully smooth, on mandarins and oranges, crystallised grapefruits. Also more tannic (silky ones). Hints of pears
timer Finish
very long, with a lot of pepper arriving now but still those fruity notes, especially at the aftertaste (citrus, melons, pineapples). Excellent but water is needed, as often with this series. 90 points . July 2, 2007 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE The Jazz Café, Camden Town, London, June 24th 2007 As you may be aware it’s Glastonbury weekend and the rain has been falling persistently in the South West since the Festival began – that hasn’t stopped it receiving media coverage worthy of a major world event (quite the reverse), which frankly it isn’t. It’s pretty wet in London too. Yesterday we were supposed to see Peter Gabriel perform at this year’s Hyde Park Calling but continual heavy showers dampened our enthusiasm during the afternoon, and our last opportunity to leave coincided with a thunderstorm and torrential rain that lasted for almost an hour, so apologies, but we took the easy option. And tonight’s even better; we’re upstairs dining at the prematurely smoke-free Jazz Café in the company of blues harmonica maestro, Charlie Musselwhite and his band. Musselwhite is the real deal – born in Mississippi of American Indian descent he moved to Memphis as a child and spent his most formative years in this musical hothouse before travelling north to Chicago. Here he became acquainted with, and performed with, the city’s musical giants such as Muddy Waters and Big Joe Williams, and harmonica greats such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and Big Walter Horton. He was particularly close to Waters’ one-time band leader Otis Spann: the two, despite their difference in years, sharing a passion for women and alcohol. Booze killed Spann – Musselwhite battled with alcoholism for many years before drying out in 1987. In 1966 Musselwhite released his first album, Stand Back, and shortly afterwards domiciled himself in California, persuading close friend and best man John Lee Hooker to move there too. In more recent years Musselwhite has been known for h
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