Ardbeg Ten is an iconic single malt from the Isle of Islay, aged 10 years and bottled at 46%, with a golden color and green highlights. This whisky, non-chill filtered, reconnects with tradition. It offers an intense and complex sensory experience, characterized by rich, smoky peat, making it a classic among peaty whisky enthusiasts.
Nose: Deep and balanced. Peaty, smoky, with chocolate notes. Evolves into candied fruits, iodine, and aromas of coffee and tobacco.
Palate: Lively and firm. Starts spicy, followed by smoke and ashes. Becomes earthy, salty, with mineral touches, fresh fruits, and citrus. Finish is milky and floral.
Finish: Long and ashy. Fresh grass, mint, gentian roots, and ginger. Retro nasal is peaty, smoky, with white fruits. Empty glass: tar and eucalyptus.
Founded in 1815 by John Macdougall, the Ardbeg distillery experienced a first period of closure between 1981 and 1989 and again in 1996, it reopened its doors a year later in 1997. In 2004, to the delight of its many aficionados, a first bottling of Ardbeg Very Young (only 6 years old) brought this legendary single malt from the Isle of Islay into a new era. The Ardbeg distillery produces some of the most peated single malts in Scotland. In the past, the lack of ventilation in the malt drying ovens retained the peat smoke, thus explaining the very peated character of its single malt. Ardbeg single malts combine charming rusticity, great finesse and a richness of expression worthy of the title “best peated whiskies”.
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Ardbeg Ten is an iconic single malt from the Isle of Islay, aged 10 years and bottled at 46%, with a golden color and green highlights. This whisky, non-chill filtered, reconnects with tradition. It offers an intense and complex sensory experience, characterized by rich, smoky peat, making it a classic among peaty whisky enthusiasts.
