Ardbeg

Ardbeg Connoisseurs Choice 23 Year Old, 1974, Gordon & MacPhail, 40%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 19
Average Score
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Description

One of Scotland's most iconic and long-running independent bottling brands. Introduced by Gordon & MacPhail in the 1970s, it has been their flagship label ever since. Evolving steadily over the decades, as of 2018 it has been reserved for some of the company's most premium casks. A distillery located on the south coast of the Isle of Islay. It is currently part of the Scotch whisky holdings of LVM ...

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Cask type
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Bottling
Independent Bottling - Gordon & MacPhail
Peated
Peated
Single cask
No
Non-chill filtered
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Cask origin
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Cask no.
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Batch
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PPM
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Barley
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Fermentation
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Master distiller (bottling)
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Master distiller (distillation)
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Limited edition
No
Bottle count
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Has box
Yes
Closure
Cork
Presentation
Box
Series highlights
Connoisseurs Choice (Map Label)
Historical context
1974 is widely considered the end of a style era for Ardbeg, as it was the last year they relied almost entirely on their own maltings for peated malt before using more external malt and eventually closing their maltings in 1977.
Special release
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Allocation
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Nose
Typical raw tar and highly expressive maritime notes, flax ropes, smoked fish, dried kelp, eucalyptus, camphor, iodine, kippers, chamomile, wet hay, classic lemon, subtle hints of diesel, sweet pipe tobacco, old leather, chocolate, freshly burned match, sulphur, walnuts, waxy, slightly bitter peat, raisins, fresh tar, salty, oak, heather, honey, buttercup, soft, well-balanced smoke notes, seaweed, lighter tar asphalt, floral maltiness, tea and honey sweetness.
Palate
Fairly sweet, pipe tobacco, cigar boxes, sweet marzipan, maple syrup, waxy notes, sweet peat, Lapsang tea, herbal notes, Fernet-Branca, cough syrup, intense peat, iodine, dark chocolate, salt, oaky, licorice, tobacco leaves, BBQ spices, oily/creamy mouthfeel, leathery, creosote, ash, dry bitterness.
Finish
Long, peaty, herbal, smoked fish, tar, drying, leathery, chewing on tobacco leaves, dark chocolate with high cacao content, smoke, salty.
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