Ardbeg 1996 OrSe Craftsman Selection

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Ardbeg
Bottler	Or Sileis (OrSe)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1996
Bottled Year	2018
Age	-
Cask Type	Hogshead
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	52.5%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Peaty

Smoky

Maritime

Oaky

Sweet

Fruity

Spicy

Vanilla

Creamy

Citrus

Honey

Chocolate

Herbal

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Tasting 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!

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