Ardbeg 1978 SMWS 33.38
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1978 |
| Bottled Year | 1995 |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 52.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 남부 해안의 아드벡이 1978년 증류해 버번 배럴에서 17년을 보낸 보틀링이다. 강렬한 토탄으로 이름난 증류소답게 맑은 금빛이 잔에 담긴다. 향에서는 짙은 토탄 연기와 타르, 레몬과 갯내음이 강하게 피어오른다. 입에서는 52.8도의 힘이 잿빛 훈연과 소금기, 바닐라로 번진다. 여운은 바닷가의 재와 타르 같은 연기가 묵직하게 오래 남는다.
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!