Nose
The undiluted nose is deep and rounded – chocolate caramels and barley sugar combine
with dates, raisins and smooth sherry notes. Later, you find leather and linseed oil.
With water the wonder gives approach to malted honeycomb, with flowering currants
emerging during the smoky sweetness of a well-fired fruit pudding.
Taste
Sweet, chewy and oily with a silky mouthfeel. The flavor is to start with sweet, revealing
fruit cake and treacle. That is followed by smoked barbecued or honey-roast food with
the slightest hint of olives.
Finish
Again long, both sweet and dry with honey, treacle and a trace of lint.
Ardbeg is the peatiest, smokiest yet most balanced of the entire Islay malts, balancing smokiness with sweetness to offer a much wider complexity of taste
Pronounced oog-a-dal, Uigeadail is gaelic for a dark, mysterious place; named after the distillery’s water source, this whisky is a marriage of sweetness, spice and deep smokiness
A unique vatting method that marries the deep, smoky notes from ex-bourbon American oak with the luscious, raisin-like character of ex-oloroso sherry casks
The Ardbeg committee’s favourite whisky, Uigeadail is gaelic for a dark, mysterious place; named after the distillery’s water source, this whisky is a marriage of sweetness, spice and deep smokiness
Serve at room temperature; enjoy neat, with a bit water or 2-3 large rocks of ice