Ardbeg Uigeadail

Pretty good. 100% worth trying.

High alcohol and strong peat flavor.

Geur: turf, zoet, zeewier ziltig Pallet: dik, stroperig en een mooie voortzetting van geur. Komt echt binnen en prikkelt als een malle. Afdronk: lang en heerlijk

Another revisit from years gone by - Uideadail has slipped a bit in the last 8ish years. Is it still a top shelf contender? Is it still better than Corryvrecken? In the glass it's a nice color, the same dark amber as Corryvrecken, and like that malt, it also has no lace at rest, but it doesn't rush to the bottom after a swirl. It does leave behind a lot of stranded drops, and I'm beginning to wonder if all high-proof Ardbeg lack good legs? Nose is dry grass, smoke, and amorphous sweet fruits. Repeat efforts bring out diesel exhaust and chalkboard erasers. Overall it's rather lackluster; not bad but nothing to write home about. Palate is a wake up call though. This is Ardbeg spunkiness from start to finish; dried kelp, rubber, salt spray, and chimney smoke on a cold day, with grilled salted peaches, sultanas, and treacle in the middle going to beach bonfire on the close. And I use the open/middle/close very loosely, because there is no restraint here, no melding of flavors, no smooth linear flow - it's everything right now. I quite enjoy this. Aside from the very refined Anthology series, I typically prefer that my Ardbeg stay true to character, and Uigeadail still does. There's no smoking jacket over tennis shoes here; it's faded jeans, half-laced work boots and a Sex Pistols concert T-shirt. And I like it a lot.