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Ardmore Tradition
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
May 17, 2018 (edited November 13, 2018)
Nose: Smoke, caramel, oak char but with a sharp sour edge like mouldy hay.
Palate: A cereal dominated arrival with some fruity and vanilla bourbon flavours and smoke. There’s some salted-caramel toffee in the development but it’s overshadowed by a herbal, grassy quality that develops into a sour bitterness. It’s something like the flavour of herbal cough lozenges and wet paper.
Finish: Medium and rather dry. The sharp and slightly salty-sour herbal character intrudes too much.
Not a favourite - too many off notes all over. OK as a mixer, but the sour notes still intrude. My taste was from a half-empty bottle at a B&B on Islay last year that provided a small selection of miniatures and bottles for guests (pour yourself a dram and leave a coin in the tray). It’s possible that it was badly oxidized and a fresh bottle would be more attractive.
“Inferior” : 67/100 (1.5 stars)
115.0
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Bottle
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Hmm, I rather enjoyed Tradition. Not overly complex from what I remember but still good
I gave this bottle away as a present because I suspected that it might be a disappointment to me, and replaced it with the discontinued 'Traditional Cask'. Quarter cask maturation was obviously too expensive, and with this small change in the name they almost pretended there is no difference at all. To be honest, I though I was buying the 'Traditional Cask' when I grabbed this bottle. Not what I'd call transparent marketing!