Ardbeg 1973 Ses

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Ardbeg
Bottler	Sestante (Ses)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1973
Bottled Year	-
Age	15년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	53.4%
Volume	750 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Peaty

Smoky

Maritime

Spicy

Sweet

Oaky

Fruity

Vanilla

Honey

Creamy

Citrus

Chocolate

Floral

Herbal

Dried Fruit

Nutty

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

rather mellow and kind of appeased, starting more on kumquats and soot than on wild peat. A lot of various herbal teas as well, such as chamomile, thyme tea, rosemary and garlic tea (good for our heart) and then whiffs of wet fabric, old books, dusty street under the first rain and tapioca flour (which is quite odourless but not totally so). Gets finally much more medicinal, with whiffs of antiseptic and camphor that are usually rather to be found in a neighbouring malt whisky. And fresh almonds

restaurant Palate

smooth, very lightly peated and unusually honeyed for an Ardbeg. Very strange, but very pleasant development on buttered croissants, caramel crème, kumquats, mint-flavoured nougats and, well, plain mint (and mint liqueur such as Ricqlès – dunno if you know that one). Pretty excellent but you have to like mint

timer Finish

medium long, even more mentholated. Incredible!

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