Ardbeg Black Mystery 10 Year Old 2009

Ardbeg 25 Year Old 1976 Silver Seal

Ardbeg 1976? Seriously? Yup. Italian collector Enrico Gaddoni has quite a few old bottles in his collection and since he recently joined me as a colleague at Catawiki, we became friends. When I ran into him at Spirits in the Sky in Brussels, this bottle was on his table. Nowhere to be found by now and if you do, you’ll need to have deep pockets....

Score 91/100

Ardbeg 1999 Galileo 12 Year Old

I actually purchased this bottle by looking at the box; it's Ardbeg, how could I go wrong? Nose: peat with hints of apricots, raisins, lemony. Palate: peat,apricots,raisins,cloves. Initially smooth. Finish: Ashy, vanilla,cloves, briny lemon. Memory(smell of glass afterwards): Leather, raisins. I felt this scotch fell short. There was a lot going...

Score 83/100

Ardbeg 10 Year Old

_This is an abbreviated of a blog entry I will post tonight or tomorrow_ According to their promotional materials, Ardbeg is _as close to perfection as makes no difference_. That's a bold claim. It's also similar to claims made by pretty much every scotch whisky distillery. I've often compared Ardbeg to Clubber Lang and Lagavulin to Rocky Balboa....

Score 91/100

Ardbeg Corryvreckan

I've been putting off writing whisky reviews on here for a long time. I think the two main reasons for that is being 1) I didn't have enough faith in my own ability to do it properly, and 2) reviewing beer is many times easier than whisky. My bottle of Ardbeg Corryvreckan (L10 168) spent a long time as the big and scary, yet unopened peat monster...

Score 91/100