Ardbeg An Oa

This is my go-to bottle; I will never not be stocked on this bottle. The An Oa brings what you would expect out of an Islay but adds a complexity of sherry, oak, and sweetness. From the nose to the finish you are in for an adventure on the layers of flavors. For a bottle at this price, nothing compares. Fans of Lagavulin 8, Laphroaig 10, or the Ardbeg 10 will have to give this dram a try. Nose: Sherry, peat, oak, slight toffee, slight salt, and smoked meats Taste: Peat, smoked meats, sherry, sea salt, toffee, oak, slight vanilla, and slight black-pepper Finish: Lingering peat, sea salt, slight sherry, vanilla/toffee sweetness, and smoked meats Writing this review already made my mouth watering for a dram.

Smooth toffee seaweed on the nose, slight caramel toffee scent, almost like caramel popcorn. Salty smooth creamy yet spicy, pepper, and nutmeg.

It isn't as distinctive as other Ardbegs. It's smooth, sort of smoky, but nothing outstanding. I wouldn't go out of my way to get it, but I might buy it if the store didn't have any other Ardbeg in stock.

Nose - iodine and briney smoke up front, once you get past that I get dense clove and Christmas spices, chocolate caramel and a bit of a metallic note Palette - fairly oily, rounded flavors, a mixture of savory smoke with sweet spicy bbq Finish - long lasting sweet and salty feeling, but that eventually fades and leaves a light smoke aftertaste, medium burn

Marie Antoinette feeding you toffee eclairs in a pine forest. Nose: caramel, peat smoke, antiseptic cream, pine Taste: toffee, vanilla from the virgin oak, sweet and savoury, plays with so much of your taste buds. Tasted as part of an online four-whisky Ardbeg flight. A good deal sweeter than the 10 but the PX doesn’t overpower and I think I may like it better than the 10yo. It was second in the tasting order and at the time it seemed better the preceeding 10yo. But when I returned to both after the Uggie and the Corry I thought the 10 shaded it.

Heavily peated on the nose. The flavor is salty, smokey, peated, hot, with a leather and dry sherry taste. The finish is short and dry and hot, with dry flowers.