Tastes

The info on this is wrong. It's not an NAS whisky. Balblair just do their age statements a little differently. They have the year of distillation and the year of bottling on the label. This was distilled in 2000 and bottled in 2017. Making it a minimum of 16 years old. It's a cracking whisky. Distinctly highland in style. With fruits, cereal and heather notes. Goes quite dry and salty as it develops. No peat. Very complex. Needs a lot of time in the glass to open up and a teaspoon of water. Lovely stuff. Definitely one of the best malts I've had lately.

To describe this whisky as 'peaty' would be an understatement. Taking a sip of Ardbeg Corryvreckan is like having a heavy-weight boxer wearing boxing gloves made entirely of peat hit you with a right hook. There's other stuff in there as well, liquorice, tar, bacon. The finish lasts forever. Fantastic stuff but only if you like peat monsters. The reviewers notes for this are wrong though. It is not 10 years old. There are whiskies in this a lot younger than 10 years.