Ardbeg 1974 SV Vintage Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | 1997 |
| Age | 23년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 350 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 천천히 돌리면 1974년 빈티지의 오래된 아드벡이 옅은 황금빛을 잔 벽에 남긴다. 코를 가져가면 세월에 누그러진 이탄 연기 위로 바닷내음과 레몬, 마른 풀의 향이 은은하게 피어오른다. 43도를 한 모금 머금으면 부드러워진 훈연과 소금기, 옅은 바닐라가 혀를 감싼다. 23년이라는 긴 숙성이 거친 기운을 다듬어, 삼킨 뒤에는 잔잔한 스모크와 시트러스가 끝에서 천천히 사라진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
even at 43%, this immense power of 70s Ardbeg comes through. A stunning mix of fusel oils, pure tar extracts, hessian and a deep, rather sweetish and highly medicinal-tinged peat smoke. Wonderfully dense and aromatic with iodine, dunnage warehouse and heavy camphor all emerging. This is all without even mentioning the sherry, which is really beautifully integrated to the point that you almost don’t notice it, although it is certainly there adding wonderful salty and earthy notes beneath all that stunning peat smoke
restaurant Palate
huge whisky for 43%! Stunningly dry, earthy and tarry peat, full of textural, slightly grubby smoky qualities, black pepper, iodine drops, old rope and oily hessian cloth impressions. I also find many medicinal roots and herbs such as gentian, wormwood and verbena. Also deeply earthy aged black teas. A deceptively complex and hypnotic whisky, even though the dominant impression is of a highly singular, perfect fusion of sherry and peat into one profile
timer Finish
stunningly long, pristinely salty, herbal, bitter, drying, earthy and immensely rich with thick peat smoke, black pepper and yet more of these wonderfully tarry rope and camphor notes