This bottle might be the one Ardbeg that really didn't gave me any expectations. Little did i knew, that it will be on my yearly top ten list. Ardbeg Scorch Committee release is the feis ile, Ardbeg Day, special expression, which has been matured in "fiercely charred casks, by totally real and not made up Islay's dragon". Bottled at 51.7%abv, light color. On the nose, spectacular. Burnt wood. Intense smoke, cuban cigars; Chocolate and a pair of new shoes. Aniseed, sawdust and this thing that we in Ecuador called "Monigote de Año Viejo" which is a full size model of any man or monster, made of sawdust, glue and newspapers, that we ecuadorians burn in new year's eve after filling it with explosive fireworks. Soot. Coal. Burnt bread. After a first sip, it gave me a heavy toffee note, mixed with sawdust, hazelnut. For just one second i got a citric Naranjilla note that made me go "wtf, where did that came from?". Clove. It is SUPER COMPLEX. Milk powder, vanilla, swamp water and passionfruit. IT HAS EVERYTHING. On the palate, this might be the greatest experience i have lived through a whisky. It starts with vanilla for a second, Then a bomb of sawdust, mix with salted water with peat; it felt exactly as that scene from Pirates of the Caribbean, where the corsair is walking through his ship that is being destroyed by cannon fire, where all the wooden parts of the ship are flying everywhere and everything is exploding. It is exactly that. Gunpowder. MEATY, LOVELY. Vanilla, it even tasted like blood (iron like). Aftertaste is the continuation of this madness. Sawdust, powerful smoke, really a great, awesome stuff. Burnt bread, very metallic. Iron or copper like. Plastic, silicon and Flare. Overall, i need more of this. I need every whisky to be like this one. The experience, the power, the balance, the craziness; everything is delivered perfectly. One of the single malts i will remember for years, the surprising Ardbeg Scorch. My score for it, can only be, a 100 over 100. Slàinte Mhath.