If you can get to Glasgow in a few weeks, a special bottling of 25-Year-Old Ardbeg single malt whisky – from a single cask of the Islay distillery – is being put on sale. The Single Malts of Scotland Director’s Special Ardbeg 25-Year-Old has been bottled at 55.5% alcohol by volume [111 proof] and is […]
Ardbeg has released an Islay single malt whisky called An Oa (pronounced “an oh” and named after a region near the distillery). Ardbeg An Oa was matured in both Pedro Ximenes casks and ex-bourbon barrels and was bottled at 46.6% alcohol by volume [93.2 proof] and is said to have both sweet and smoky notes. […]
Hunter Laing has released The Kinship – a collection of six, single-cask Islay whiskies. The Kinship specifically consists of a 34-year-old sherry cask Port Ellen ($2300), 33-year-old sherry cask Caol Ila ($475), 30-year old sherry cask Bowmore ($625), 30-year-old Bourbon cask Laphroaig ($910), 28-year-old sherry cask Bunnahabhain ($390) and a 26-year-old Bourbon cask Ardbeg ($910). […]
Ardbeg has released a limited-edition whisky called “Kelpie” that has been matured in virgin oak casks from the Black Sea before being sent to spend time in the more traditional ex-bourbon barrels. Perhaps not surprisingly, Ardbeg Kelpie is said to contain notes of salt and seaweed and has been bottled at 46% alcohol by volume […]
Ardbeg has launched their limited edition Ardbeg Dark Cove as their way of celebrating the Islay Festival of Malt and Music in May taking place next month on the famous whisky-producing island. Ardbeg’s island home – Islay – was the origin of a profitable whisky-smuggling business back in the day [18th and 19th centuries] and […]
Once Ardbeg figures out how to get their whisky to not taste like rubbery smoke, Ballantine’s has a glass for them to put their space whisky in – the new zero gravity whisky glass…
Ardbeg sent a sample of whisky into orbit on the International Space Station to determine the effect of micro-gravity on both the aroma and taste of whisky and after returning to Earth, the results are now in – and it is not good – unless you like smoke. Like, a lot of smoke. Ardbeg found […]
The world had its Whisky Day last week but Ardbeg wants its own day and toward that end, they have launched Ardbeg Pepetuum tocelebrate what the distillery calls Ardbeg Day on May 30, 2015, commemorating the first day the Islay single malt Scotch whisky was first distilled 200 years ago. Ardbeg Pepetuum single malt Scotch […]