Ardbeg 1978 GM Spirit of Scotland
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1978 |
| Bottled Year | 2000 |
| Age | 22년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
오래 묵은 황금빛이 잔 속에서 묵직하게 빛난다. 아일라의 아드벡이 1978년에 증류되어 22년을 보낸 보틀링으로, 지금은 좀처럼 만나기 어려운 빈티지다. 바닷가의 짠 내음과 타르, 그을린 피트가 강렬하게 피어오르고, 오랜 숙성이 그 거친 연기를 한결 부드럽게 빚어냈다. 56.9도의 도수 위로 훈제와 감초, 다크 초콜릿이 흐른다. 매캐하면서도 달콤한 여운이 길고 깊게 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
extremely unusual, starting on bold notes of cocoa and tinned sardines. I’m not joking. Then there’s quite some vanilla, herbal tea (more like camomile), yoghurt and lemon juice. Very far from displaying the Blasda’s cleanliness on the nose, and certainly much less peaty. Gets finally more ‘Ardbeg’, with more maritime notes (not only sardines, yeah, yeah), a little tar and more green apples than in the Blasda. A tad bizarre, sort of ‘undecided’. Whiffs of menthol do come through after a few minutes
restaurant Palate
good body and good mouth feel, creamy and lemony but with also some weird notes of C-vitamin tablets, Sprite, wood tannins… Not my cup of malt at all. Fast forward…
timer Finish
long but prickly and lemony. Ginger ale, gin fizz