Ardbeg Scorch - 70cl

Ardbeg Scorch for Feis Ile 2021, 46%, 700ml

The Ardbeg Scorch is the 2021 committee release and the box is bedecked with artful flavor dragons breathing, presumably, flavor fire. The Scorch in the name derives from the heavy char Ardbeg gave to the barrels this scotch matured in for an undisclosed period of time.

Scorch is matured in intensely charred ex-bourbon barrels, creating aromas of hazelnuts, aniseed, oily smoke, garden herbs, pine and fennel that fill the nose. The palate offers notes of boiled sweets, tar, liquorice, clove, pepper, heathery peat smoke and sandalwood.