Last year I visited the Ardbeg Distillery on Islay and picked up this bottle of the re-released 17 year old. I’m reviewing it now with the recent Ardbeg Day and Fèis Ìle (two things I unfortunately was NOT in Scotland for!) fresh in my thoughts. Beautiful nose, with sweet molasses, smoked orchard fruits, and the medicine cabinet at my grandmother’s house when I was a kid. On the palate, cigarette ash, sweet vanilla candy, and spiced, wet wood chips. My moving picture take on it, if you’re curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA9NpsbXCO8

Posted by Rick at The Whisky Zone at 2025-06-03 20:34:34 UTC