Ardbeg 36 Year Old 60th Anniversary Douglas Laing

Ardbeg 1990 Airigh Nam Beist

Airigh Nam Beist was first sold in 2006 and was bottled over two more subsequent years. Its name is Gaelic for “shelter of the beast". This review refers to the 2007 release, a 17-year old whisky matured mostly in ex-Bourbon casks. The nose delivers a powerful impact: it is intense with tar, salt, brine and coal ash. As was to be expected...

Score 89/100

Ardbeg SMWS 33.109

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, SMWS for short, bottled this Ardbeg at the age of 11 years in 2011. It came from a refill sherry cask and is their 109th bottling from this distillery already. The whisky is nicknamed ‘Delightful Intensity of Sherry and Smoke’. Let us see if it can live up to that. Wow, what a strong nose! The first thing that...

Score 91/100

Ardbeg Perpetuum

This is a review of the regular Perpetuum expression (not the Committee release) Ardbeg produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the distillery in 2015. According to the distillery this was matured in both ex-bourbon barrels and ex-sherry casks. The nose starts with flavours of porridge and malted barley, followed by a touch of cardboard....

Score 85/100

Ardbeg 10 Year Old

Like the Corryvreckan, this has a smoky sweet nose and the scotch envelopes the tongue on contact. Salt enters after the sweetness, and the finish is very fresh and vegetal. I like the Corryvreckan as well, but this has a slight edge for me and costs a lot less.

Score 92/100