Ardbeg 1974 SV Vintage Collection - Dumpy
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | 1998 |
| Age | 23년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Wood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 52.4% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
깊은 황금빛이 잔 속에 그윽하게 어린다. 1974년 증류해 23년을 보낸 올드 아드벡은 강렬한 피트가 세월에 둥글어진 자리에 잘 익은 열대 과일과 레몬, 바닐라의 향을 얹는다. 52.4도의 기름진 술이 혀를 감싸며 그을린 오크와 다크 초콜릿, 짭조름한 훈연이 깊게 드러난다. 거칠던 연기가 시간 속에서 우아해진 깊이가 또렷하고, 잿빛 피트와 시트러스의 여운이 한없이 이어진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
this time it's the smoke from a huge beach bonfire that first enters your nostrils, while you wonder if some environmentally inconsequent folks haven't thrown an old tyre into the fire. The starting grid of a Grand Prix… just after the start. So this one comes very tarry and 'burnt', but quite bizarrely, it is soon to become much gentler, with all the expected citrus and fresh almonds entering the dance. Then oysters, seawater, shoe polish, lapsang souchong and embrocations. Rather epic. With water: oh fresh bread, wool, old tweed jacket that's seen many rainy moons, more hot tyres and even, as I sometimes say, 'the exhausts of an old 2-stroke Kawasaki'
restaurant Palate
this arrival is very citric; you're almost biting into some Seville orange (inadvertently). So there's a rather huge bitterness, with loads of tar and salt too. Coal tar. Huge! With water: an amazing softness now, this one really loves water. Soft olive oil, tar liqueur, more lapsang souchong, marzipan, just olives, perhaps half an anchovy, smoked oysters…
timer Finish
long, on brine and iodine, with some plasticine and shoe polish. The citrus standing back this time