Ardbeg 2001 SMWS 33.75 Penetrates and explodes
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Ardbeg |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2001 |
| Bottled Year | 2009 |
| Age | 7년 |
| Cask Type | Ex-Bourbon First Fill Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 61.5% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale white wine
air Nose
lightly peated? Excuse me but this is very peaty, albeit maybe not very smoky. An Ardbeg that casts sidelong glances at Laphroaig, so to speak. Quite medicinal, on antiseptic and a little camphor (but much less camphor than in older bottlings), some soot and some tar and slight notes of cream. Quite some vanilla and candy sugar behind all that, and then more and more marzipan. Apples. It does get less peaty indeed. With water: well, water revived the peatiness, as well as a few organic farmy and coastal notes. Gets finally quite sweet again, on a lot of barley sugar. Strange, this ‘elastic peatiness’. Traces of FWP as well, very bizarre
restaurant Palate
punchy and extremely sweet, almost bubblegummy. Bags and bags of pear drops, ‘Haribo bears’ and liquorice allsorts. Gets then much grassier and almost bitter. Medium peated so far. With water: more sugary notes and a slight soapiness. Not too nice in my opinion
timer Finish
long but with something burnt and again something a little soapy. Some aspects remind me of Glenturret, which is strange, agreed
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