Islay distillery Ardbeg will release the oldest and most prestigious expression to join its permanent range of whiskies in the U.S. from January 2021. Ardbeg 25 Years Old single malt will offer whisky lovers “the opportunity to experience Ardbeg at its most intricate, balanced and beguiling.”   

  The spirit was distilled during the 1990s, at a time when the Ardbeg Distillery was only producing a trickle of new make spirit every year.   Ardbeg from this period is therefore extremely rare, but the whisky creation team deemed that after a quarter of a century, the malt was so exquisite that it should be bottled and released as a permanent expression – albeit in limited quantities.  “After a quarter of a century in the cask, you’d be forgiven for imagining that Ardbeg 25 Years Old would have lost some of the hallmark Ardbeg smoky punch,” said Ardberg Whisky Creator Dr. Bill Lumsden.  “I can assure you it hasn’t. And yet there’s also a remarkable complexity and elegance to this whisky that I find utterly captivating. It’s unmistakably Ardbeg, but unlike any Ardbeg you’ve tasted before.”  Ardbeg 25 Years Old is presented in a unique gun metal bottle encased in an intricate metal ‘cage’ – a modern take on the classic Ardbeg knotwork, and symbolic of the untamed complexity of this extraordinary whisky.  “An extremely vibrant, hot peppery mouthfeel leads into a burst of sherbet lemon sweetness (candied apples, pears and orange), hints of carbolic soap and tar, more creamy toffee, aniseed and chilli pepper,” describe the official tasting notes.  Ardbeg 25 Years Old is bottled at 46% and will retail for $850 US. It will be available in limited release quantities worldwide from Janury 2021.  For more information visit the Ardberg Website.  Feature Image Editorial credit: Sergiy Palamarchuk / Shutterstock.com

Islay distillery Ardbeg will release the oldest and most prestigious expression to join its permanent range of whiskies in the U.S. from January 2021. Ardbeg 25 Years Old single malt will offer whisky lovers “the opportunity to experience Ardbeg at its most intricate, balanced and beguiling.”   

  The spirit was distilled during the 1990s, at a time when the Ardbeg Distillery was only producing a trickle of new make spirit every year.   Ardbeg from this period is therefore extremely rare, but the whisky creation team deemed that after a quarter of a century, the malt was so exquisite that it should be bottled and released as a permanent expression – albeit in limited quantities.  “After a quarter of a century in the cask, you’d be forgiven for imagining that Ardbeg 25 Years Old would have lost some of the hallmark Ardbeg smoky punch,” said Ardberg Whisky Creator Dr. Bill Lumsden.  “I can assure you it hasn’t. And yet there’s also a remarkable complexity and elegance to this whisky that I find utterly captivating. It’s unmistakably Ardbeg, but unlike any Ardbeg you’ve tasted before.”  Ardbeg 25 Years Old is presented in a unique gun metal bottle encased in an intricate metal ‘cage’ – a modern take on the classic Ardbeg knotwork, and symbolic of the untamed complexity of this extraordinary whisky.  “An extremely vibrant, hot peppery mouthfeel leads into a burst of sherbet lemon sweetness (candied apples, pears and orange), hints of carbolic soap and tar, more creamy toffee, aniseed and chilli pepper,” describe the official tasting notes.  Ardbeg 25 Years Old is bottled at 46% and will retail for $850 US. It will be available in limited release quantities worldwide from Janury 2021.  For more information visit the Ardberg Website.  Feature Image Editorial credit: Sergiy Palamarchuk / Shutterstock.com

Islay distillery Ardbeg will release the oldest and most prestigious expression to join its permanent range of whiskies in the U.S. from January 2021.

Ardbeg 25 Years Old single malt will offer whisky lovers “the opportunity to experience Ardbeg at its most intricate, balanced and beguiling.” 

 

The spirit was distilled during the 1990s, at a time when the Ardbeg Distillery was only producing a trickle of new make spirit every year.  

Ardbeg from this period is therefore extremely rare, but the whisky creation team deemed that after a quarter of a century, the malt was so exquisite that it should be bottled and released as a permanent expression – albeit in limited quantities. 

“After a quarter of a century in the cask, you’d be forgiven for imagining that Ardbeg 25 Years Old would have lost some of the hallmark Ardbeg smoky punch,” said Ardberg Whisky Creator Dr. Bill Lumsden. 

“I can assure you it hasn’t. And yet there’s also a remarkable complexity and elegance to this whisky that I find utterly captivating. It’s unmistakably Ardbeg, but unlike any Ardbeg you’ve tasted before.” 

Ardbeg 25 Years Old is presented in a unique gun metal bottle encased in an intricate metal ‘cage’ – a modern take on the classic Ardbeg knotwork, and symbolic of the untamed complexity of this extraordinary whisky. 

“An extremely vibrant, hot peppery mouthfeel leads into a burst of sherbet lemon sweetness (candied apples, pears and orange), hints of carbolic soap and tar, more creamy toffee, aniseed and chilli pepper,” describe the official tasting notes. 

Ardbeg 25 Years Old is bottled at 46% and will retail for $850 US. It will be available in limited release quantities worldwide from Janury 2021. 

For more information visit the Ardberg Website. 

Feature Image Editorial credit: Sergiy Palamarchuk / Shutterstock.com