Ardbeg 17 (2001)

Info: In my post about our brief visit to the distillery I included a couple of pieces of Ardbeg history as it might be handy later. Well, later is now. Due to a friendly challenge to not only find old Ardbeg but quite specifically a 1981 Kildalton, I had to chase down one of the The […]

Ardbeg Uigeadail now (2015) and then (2005)

Ardbeg Aligator – featuring kdz13

I did this review about a two years ago side by side so to say with a fellow redditor called kdz13, whom I send a sample of this for his birthday. The quoted words are his, which he granted me permutation to post here. You can find the original reddit post here.

Gordon and MacPhails’ Connoisseurs Choice Ardbeg 1974

Ardbeg | Gordon and MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice 1974 | distilled 1974 and bottled 1996 | 40 % | Info: In 1974 Ardbeg still used its own malt, malted in their kiln. Later on they were mothballed (once again) and after that used malt they got from Port Ellen Maltings, like most distilleries on Islay do.

Ardbeg TEN: old (2003) vs. new (recent)

Info: In my post about our brief visit to the distillery, I included a couple of pieces of Ardbeg history as it might be handy later. Well, later is now.

Ardbeg Supernova 2014

I had this dram bind as a part of a quite nice line-up of blind samples I had the chance to try two years ago. I spare you the rather long post about it, but if you want to read it all, here is the original reddit post. All I knew going in was that […]

Ardbeg Dark Cove Committee Release

Between the Lore (my reddit review is here – meh! And no my opinion on it didn’t improve) and the Lagavulin 8 (will be included in my upcoming Lagavulin review) this is one of last years Islay special releases – so to say.