Ardmore 2009
Single malt Scotch whisky · 70cl
Distilled at Ardmore in the Highlands in 2009 and matured for 16 years in a single ex-Laphroaig cask, a peated Chronograph where Highland smoke meets coastal, medicinal intensity.
Tasting notes
- Medicinal Peat
- Sea Salt
- Charred Oak
- Honeyed Malt
- Smoked Almond
- Dark Chocolate
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Why we chose this cask
Ardmore is Highland peat, which is gentler than Islay peat. Put it in an ex-Laphroaig cask for sixteen years and it stops being gentle. This is the most intense bottle we have released and it is not for everyone.
One cask, 220 bottles.
Who it is for
For the drinker who already owns a bottle of Laphroaig and wants to know what its cask does to somebody else’s whisky.
Medicinal, salty and ashy, with honey and vanilla underneath. Start here only if you know you like peat.
Flavour profile
Tasted by Jamie
Burnished gold with a soft amber glow, and slow, oily legs that coat the glass and promise weight.
Clean medicinal smoke rises first, iodine, sea spray and dried seaweed from its ex-Laphroaig cask, over a softer core of honeyed malt, warm cereal and vanilla, with orchard fruit and a faint eucalyptus lift.
Full-bodied and oily: waves of peat smoke and charred oak carry maritime salt and a distinct medicinal, almost TCP edge, with barley-sugar sweetness and smoked almond beneath. The finish is long and warming, drying to ashy bonfire smoke, sea salt and a touch of dark chocolate before honey and vanilla return.
- Medicinal Peat
- Sea Salt
- Charred Oak
- Honeyed Malt
- Smoked Almond
- Dark Chocolate
The cask
Nº 708374
About Ardmore
HighlandBuilt in 1898 by the Teacher family at Kennethmont in rural Aberdeenshire, Ardmore was raised to supply the heart of the Teacher’s Highland Cream blend. It remains a Highland rarity: a firmly peated malt smoked with mainland Aberdeenshire peat for a soft, campfire smoke rather than Islay’s coastal sting, with water drawn from springs on Knockandy Hill. Long the quiet backbone of Teacher’s and bottled in its own right only in recent years, Ardmore is seldom seen as a single cask, rarer still matured in an ex-Laphroaig barrel, this one bottled just as it came of age, and not to be poured again.
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