Ardbeg 1991 SV Cask Strength Collection - Symington’s Choice
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1991 |
| Bottled Year | 2024 |
| Age | 33년 |
| Cask Type | First Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 52.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
퍼스트필 올로로소 셰리 벗이 33년의 시간을 견디며 만든 결과가 짙은 마호가니 색과 깊은 향으로 또렷이 드러난다. 시그너토리 빈티지의 시밍턴스 초이스로 풀린 아드벡 1991은 52.6도의 카스크 스트렝스로 셰리와 피트의 단단한 결합을 곱게 풀어낸다. 향은 자두잼과 옅은 피트 스모크, 마른 가죽. 입에서는 다크 초콜릿과 훈제 견과, 가벼운 후추가 풀바디 질감으로 입천장을 천천히 덮는다. 아일라 본연의 깊이가 여운에 깊게 머문다.
AITasting 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!