Ardbeg 15 Year Old 2006 Cask #9099 - First Fill Black Sherry Butt (Feis lle 2022) Single Malt Scotch Whisky | 700ML

A 15-year-old Ardbeg distilled in 2006 and matured in first-fill black sherry butt cask #9099, released for the Feis Ìle 2022 festival. The combination of Ardbeg's intensely smoky Islay spirit and a first-fill sherry cask creates a rich contrast between peat smoke, dark fruit, sweet spice, and deep oak. Fifteen years of maturation allow the powerful distillery character to become considerably more integrated while retaining its signature maritime intensity. As a festival-associated single-cask release, it is a particularly distinctive and collectible expression of Ardbeg.

Ardbeg 15 Year Old 2006 Cask #9099 - First Fill Black Sherry Butt (Feis lle 2022) Single Malt Scotch Whisky | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Dense peat smoke, charcoal, iodine, sea spray, dark chocolate, raisins, and blackcurrant. Rich sherry sweetness, orange peel, and toasted oak emerge beneath the smoke.

Palate: Powerful and richly textured, with intense peat, dark dried fruit, black chocolate, espresso, treacle, orange zest, and pepper. The first-fill sherry butt adds deep sweetness and spice without overwhelming the smoky Ardbeg character.

Finish: Extremely long and warming, with lingering peat smoke, dark chocolate, dried fruit, espresso, black pepper, sea salt, and polished oak.

Distillery Information

Ardbeg is one of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world, and for good reason. The Ardbeg distillery produces some of the finest single malt whisky around and has been doing so for centuries. The Ardbeg distillery is located on the island of Islay, off the coast of Scotland. The distillery was founded in 1815 by John McDougall and has been in operation ever since. Ardbeg whisky is renowned for its smoky flavour, which comes from the peat that is used to smoke the barley during the whisky-making process. Ardbeg lies solitary, in a small cove off the south coast of Islay. It was once a stage for illegal distillation when smugglers took advantage of the remote location and exceptional conditions for whisky production. Eventually, excise men seized the original, illegitimate buildings from the smugglers and destroyed them. It was not until 1815 that a legal distillery was established and founded by John McDougall. Sitting nearby leviathan distilleries; Laphroaig and Lagavulin, Ardbeg has always produced a very sought-after single malt, despite Ardbeg's production scale being less than half that of its neighbours.

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