Ardbeg 1973 TWiS

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Ardbeg
Bottler	The Wine Society (TWiS)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1973
Bottled Year	1990
Age	-
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	56.7%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Peaty

Smoky

Maritime

Oaky

Spicy

Sweet

Fruity

Vanilla

Creamy

Nutty

Honey

Herbal

Dried Fruit

Citrus

Chocolate

Floral

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

extremely unusual, starting on bold notes of cocoa and tinned sardines. I’m not joking. Then there’s quite some vanilla, herbal tea (more like camomile), yoghurt and lemon juice. Very far from displaying the Blasda’s cleanliness on the nose, and certainly much less peaty. Gets finally more ‘Ardbeg’, with more maritime notes (not only sardines, yeah, yeah), a little tar and more green apples than in the Blasda. A tad bizarre, sort of ‘undecided’. Whiffs of menthol do come through after a few minutes

restaurant Palate

good body and good mouth feel, creamy and lemony but with also some weird notes of C-vitamin tablets, Sprite, wood tannins… Not my cup of malt at all. Fast forward…

timer Finish

long but prickly and lemony. Ginger ale, gin fizz

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