Posts Tagged “Ardbeg”
As Ardbeg craze goes into high fever with the announcement of the release of the newest release for 2014 Ardbeg Kildalton, I’ll go back to the Supernova for a quick Dram. The Supernova is the most peated expression by Ardbeg, peated to over 100 ppm and is highly popular with the “Ardbeg heads”, with a very…
I’m tasting all manner of vatted malts for a feature post, and received three samples from Douglas Laing: Two Double Barrel expressions (Ardbeg & Aultmore and Caol Ila & Tamdhu) and a sample of Big Peat. The Big Peat sample will be tasted with some other Islay vatted malts, but I don’t have to wait to…
I’ll be tasting That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s Ardbeg batch 4 today, but I’ll talk about the Ardbeg Distillery in another post, in this one I want to mention the independent bottlers and their importance to the whisky industry. Truth be told, Independent Bottlers are an industry curiosity and a relic of times long gone. Obviously, in…