Ardbeg Corryvreckan

So smoke!!!

Complex on the nose - marked smoked and roasted meats with hints of pine. Smooth medicinal/iodine palate with hints of spices, creamy with touch of fruit. Finish long and strong with smoked bacon, chilli and salt. Complex peaty perfection.

A lot of peat, maybe too much, that you can’t feel a lot the other flavor, like vanilla, chocolate and coffe. Like it , but not one of my favorite . 🥃

I would basically sum this up as a cask strength version of the 10yr with a little more barrel spice. It’s a lovely dram of Islay whisky. Nose: richly layered, candied lemon peel, ginger, vanilla, sweet malt. Then the phenols: ocean spray, tide pool, wet hay, graphite pencil. Palate: a lot of follow through from the nose. Oily and yet clean, candied ginger, citrus, blood orange, clean malt, gunpowder, barrel spice, peppercorns, slight tingling in the back of the throat, numbing the cheeks, asphalt, tobacco, and ash. Finish: creamy and sweet vanilla, leather, chocolate covered blueberries, white pepper, sweet tobacco leaf.