Ardbeg 1976 21 Year Old Adelphi

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 Kelpie Committee Exclusive Release

Back to back Ardbegs! That’s how we like to live our life. Especially if there’s not much to complain about. After the funny sounding An Oa it’s the equally ludicrous Kelpie. Jackie, over at the visitors centre at Ardbeg, was kind enough to set aside a case of the Committee bottling before our trip to Islay on account of them disappearing off the...

Score 86/100

Ardbeg 1975 bottled 2000

I think by now everyone's read about my trip to Islay for the Feis Ile so I won't bore you with the details. What is pertinent, though, is our annual pilgrimage to the Kildalton Cross, a few miles ahead of Ardbeg, with the aim of toasting something special. This year there were seven of us. Which was both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because...

Score 90/100

Ardbeg Uigeadail bottled 2004

This bottle is one of the oldest in my collection, I use it largely as a reference to judge more recent purchases as I remember being bowled over by it on first sampling. I’d tried several malts before this bottle and loved many of them but this stuff just seemed to be on another level, it may have lost some volatiles over the years so might not...

Score 93/100