2019 Ardbeg Supernova...First Impressions: Nose: dense campfire smoke, grilled meat, vegetal peat, malt, fresh pressed wildflowers, vanilla, tobacco, apple butter. Palate: immediately sweet dense malt, honey, golden delicious apples and pineapple syrup. Then the peat explodes in a battle between vegetal and herbal notes. Anise, menthol, sweet floral, and then the barrel spice erupts on the back end. Finish: long, creamy mint, peat, vanilla, forest floor. Leaning more sweet than earthy. Through the whole journey is this dense cord of smoke wrapped in all the sweet malt and vegetal peat notes; From front to finish. This is such a unique Ardbeg. Almost leaning in the Octomore direction but completely Ardbegian. Nosing it next to the 10yr reveals the depth of smoke and peat as the 10yr noses like a malty “briney” Highland in comparison. This is amazing in every way.