Ardbeg Twenty Something 23 Year

Beautifully balanced Ardbeg with smoke, salt, sweet, and sherry. Nose: Vanilla, Mackerels, Smoke, Toffee, Cherries, Peaches, Coal, Dark Chocolate, Plums Palate: Dark Chocolate, Smoke, Salted Cod, Almonds, Nutmeg, Raisins, Grilled Pineapples Finish: Honey, Pineapples, Smoke, Mangoes, Iodine, Salted Toffee, Papayas, Peaches, Cherries

Aroma of peat and wood, but green wood. Sappy and pungent. Incredibly juicy, a bit less burn than the others I've tried. Let's the sweet flavors shine, there's that green wood mixed with some fruit. Some sort of berry or maybe pineapple. Spice comes in to carry the tail, these flavors blend perfectly. Mouthwatering.

More complex than most peated whiskies. Toffee, chocolate, and a bit of smoke on each silky sip.

Holy smoke. Found a bottle in the VA ABC store, and was fortunate enough to be able to get it. I wish I was as mature when I was a twenty something as this scotch is. The nose opens with vanilla, peat, sherry, antique wood, and hints of pineapple. The palate is amazingly smooth, complex, and deep. Each sip brings you deeper into a smoke filled lounge where decisions of state of made. Chocolate leads into smoke which leads into pine, which brings you to a party with dried fruits, nuts, tobacco, and figs. The finish lingers for a wonderful eternity. Incense and vanilla round into an herb garden of flavors. Basil and thyme come through followed quickly by dark chocolate before disappearing into the night.

Nose: Cinnamon, dark chocolate, bubble gum, old oak, leather, sherry, grape leaves. Taste: Olive oil viscosity, sherry explosion followed by sweet peat malt, old oak and leather. Finish: Long with old oak, sweet malt, smoky ashes, and sherry.