Ardbeg 1978 MM The Syndicate's
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1978 |
| Bottled Year | 1988 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 57.8% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
deeply ashy, petrolic and saline. An assertive and almost brutal minerality along with these notes of boiler smoke, dried kelp, black pepper and smoked olive oil. There’s also some rather earthy notes of black tea and vegetal things like baked cauliflower, caraway, antiseptic and asparagus. Given time you also get something almost cheesy - unlikely, but in a good way. With water: gets very smoky, earthy and drying. Lots of smoked canvass, fabrics and coal dust. Really a beast of an Ardbeg!
restaurant Palate
big, fatty, oily, salty and drying. Lots of dried smoked herbs, peat, frying bacon, seawater, tarry rope, anthracite embers and mercurochrome. Whoever said 1978 Ardbegs were lighter? With water: green olives, anchovy paste, sardines, salty butter with chives. On the whole it’s hugely gutsy, greasy and full of fatty and rather industrial-accented peat smoke. Also brilliantly salty, this is the answer to the question: ‘how many ways can the flavour of salt manifest in Scotch Whisky?’
timer Finish
endless long, salty, oily and full of greasy boiler smoke, black pepper, gentian eau de vie, tar and TCP