Ardbeg 2000 IM WE - Single Islay Malt Scotch Whisky
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Ian Macleod (IM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2000 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 5년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 58.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
Caol Ila shines through first (peat, fresh apples and smoked oysters) but Clynelish is well here, with another kind of ‘coastality’ (less smoky) and lots of green and yellow fruits: pears, plums, white peaches plus hints of diesel oil. Excellent, very clean, perfectly balanced, with a great freshness. Especially the chosen proportion of Caol Ila is perfect
restaurant Palate
exactly the same happens on the palate. First Caol Ila (and a rather wild one, at that) with a straightforward smokiness, then mingling with Clynelishe’s complex fruitiness and waxiness. Lots of spices, at that, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, kumquats, dried figs, soft curry… Very, very good. Long, ample finish on both peat and spices plus notes of bananas flambéed and finally lots of pepper. Wonderful I think – now, this is for single malt drinkers! My favourite Compass Box so far and by far. 90 points , with my modest (yeah) congratulations and encouragements. MALT MANIACS INFORMATION KINCLAITH DISTILLERY PROFILE by Davin de Kergommeaux It’s safe to say there was no pagoda atop the Kinclaith Distillery, no quaint dunnage warehouses with earthen floors and blackened, low, stone walls. A babbling burn did not deliver the purest water in Scotland to mash the barley or cool the condensers. No; Kinclaith was part of a big, ugly, urban, industrial complex. Yet someone in that complex cared about Kinclaith, for in its 17 short years of production some fine, and now much-sought-after malts were put to cask. All that remains of Kinclaith is a sign in the Strathclyde grain distillery, with the simple text: Strathclyde & Long John Distillers Limited Kinclaith Distillery 1957 Glasgow. For Kinclaith was an afterthought - a malt distillery housed within the mammoth Strathclyde grain distillery at 40 Moffat Street near the Glasgow airport. As collectors of rare malts have learned from the experiences of Ben Wyvis, Glen Flagler, Killyloch or Ladyburn, a grain whisky distillery is not a safe place for a pot still. Built in 1957 by Schenley’s Long John Distillers, Kinclaith was used almost entirely in-house for Long John blends. The first Kinclaith passed through the spirit safe in 1958, but when Strathclyde was sold to Whitbread in1975, production of Kinclaith came to a halt and the distillery was dismantled to make way for more grain whisky and vodka production at Strathclyde. What a
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