Ardbeg 23 Years Old Vintage Y2K in box

SKU: A23YOV70

Taste: The texture is fizzy and sherbet-like, with a vibrant effervescence on the tongue. The initial flavour is intensely sweet, with a burst of aniseed, toffee, digestive biscuits, peppermint, menthol, tar and coffee grounds. Sooty and tarry flavours then build. Finish is long, lingering aftertaste reveals antiseptic lozenges, bitter orange peel and oak tannins.

Smell: Herbal, sweet and fragrant, with a subtle, distant perfumed smokiness. A closer inspection reveals a quirky, zesty note like lemon balsam, along with a suggestion of linseed oil and candied walnuts. With a splash of water, the fragrance intensifies, with a note of heather honey, a touch of creosote and the tiniest hint of tent canvas.

Description: Ardbeg Vintage Y2K is Ardbeg Islay single malt Scotch whisky’s first vintage of the millennium. This ultra-rare whisky is the first in a highly limited collectors’ series created from the spirit of this milestone Ardbeggian year. In 2000, the Distillery returned to glory after decades of neglect and the loyal Ardbeg Committee was formed. Crafted from some of the first spirit of that era of regeneration, in Ardbeg’s historic still, the inaugural edition of the Ardbeg Vintage Y2K series is unlike anything which came before. Aged in the finest bourbon and Oloroso sherry casks around, this smoky anomaly is intensely sweet and classically peaty. Aromas of lemon balsam reminisce with linseed oil and heather honey, while soot and peppermint stir up memories of ground coffee and aniseed on the palate.

Color: Pale Amber

Alcohol: 46 % vol.

Category: Whisky, Whisky