Ardbeg An Oa

Good

What can I say, love everything from Ardbeg. This is so creamy but leafy at the same time. Excellent!

At Distillery 2018 Easy drinking

Not overly peaty...smooth on The pallet

Nose: An Oa begins with a powerful note of oily, dense peat smoke that can be somewhat difficult for the inexperienced to move past. Those who can are rewarded with a mineral salinity, bright flashes of lemon and cedar, with a beautiful finish of vanilla and anise. Taste: A smooth marble of smoke, oak, and butterscotch is my initial impression of An Oa on the tongue, with some edge eccentricities of barrel char and iodine. With a little bit of water to crack it open, you find a creamy center of honey and maple candied bacon with a dash of cayenne. Ardbeg An Oa has a lingering finish of rising smoke and smooth, sweet butterscotch with an oily, dense body.

To me even better than the 10 years old with the sweet sherry layer on top of the usual great peat, pepper and saltiness.

You spent the afternoon in the jungle, tracking and killing that velociraptor. First of all, nicely done. Second, you've built a good campfire and are roasting some of that raptor meat. Enjoy. Smells smokey, but not overpowering. Tastes like smoked raptor jerky. Yah, roll with the joke.