Ardmore 1977 Cask# 7625 Cadenhead's

Ardmore 8 Year Old 2008 Berry Bros & Rudd for The Nectar

This is probably the palest Ardmore I have ever seen. Even lighter than white wine. Berry Brothers bottled this youngling for The Nectar, a Belgian importer. It is a single cask, but cut to 46%. The nose may start closed, but slowly it shows it true colors. In this case, that means a delicately smoky but mostly very sweet nose on barley sugars,...

Score 83/100

Ardmore 66.36 - Milano Salami and a Tropical Fruit Kebab

10yo Ardmore aged in a refill ex sherry butt. “Milano Salami and a Tropical Fruit Kebab” @58.2% ABV and 1/702 bottles. Incredibly dark, looks like it could have spent 20 years in a first fill sherry cask; deep maroon. To smell: Honey glazed ham, a sweet BBQ sauce coating charred spare ribs. Surprisingly much more meaty than smoky – it’s a big,...

Score 88/100

Ardmore 10 Year Old 2008 Smoking Buffalo

This is the end of an era… with this 10th edition, the infamous Smoking Buffalo series – a smoked whisky in honour of AA Gent, a Belgian premier league football team – comes to an end. For their 10th and final edition, they found a cask in the Highlands: a 10 years old Ardmore at casks strength. The bourbon cask yielded 265 bottles of this very...

Score 85/100

Ardmore 2008 / 8 Year Old / Provenance

My first bottle of Ardmore (although I now have two on the go) and plumbed for a single (refill - bourbon I'm guessing) cask IB from Douglas Laing's Provenance series. I believe that it is only relatively recently that Ardmore branched into the single malt world, being primarily used as blend filler. Ardmore is said to be the main malt...

Score 86/100