**Price:** $44.99 at Total Wine in Houston, Texas **Setting:** Neat in a Glencairn, with a fat basset hound passed out next to me. **Color:** Pale yellow **Nose:** Light and crisp. Salt air, smoke, band-aids, toffee, and as a green note I’ll call green apple. **(19/25 points)** **Taste:** Smoke, peat, band-aids, bacon, honey, chocolate, pop-rocks. Delicious and surprising bright and clear for the level of peat in the bottle. Nice mouthfeel with little alcohol burn. **(46/50 points)** **Finish:** Medium length. Some light alcohol burn with honey and chocolate notes competing with spicy and smoky notes. **(22/25) points)** **Conclusion:** Ardbeg 10 is another one of my favorite whiskies. A number of flavors move in and out as you drink, and as a result, it’s a fun whisky to analyze. It’s peated, but the peat is well balanced with the other flavors, to the extent that I often forget that it is there. It also has a strong quality to price ratio, and is well worth trying if you haven't already done so. **87/100**