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Ardbeg Eureka!

Designed By Committee
Bottle - 70cL

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For a quarter of a century, it has been the Ardbeg Committee’s raison d’être to debate, discuss and disagree in any way it sees fit about the ultimate Islay malt. As indeed a select group were summoned to do in a hidden corner of the Distillery one Ardbeg Day. This whisky is the result of those top secret deliberations. After months of experimentation in pursuit of the ultimate Committee bottling, our whisky creation team have pulled off the impossible.

Is it possible to capture the multifarious flavour preferences of thousands of fans in a single dram? If this bottling is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding ‘yes!’ By skilfully combining PX sherry casks with roasted malt spirit matured in bourbon casks, Ardbeg’s whisky creators have masterminded this exuberant and complex dram. Salted crispy seaweed and sweet cinnamon jostle with dark chocolate coated raisins and burning embers. A paradoxical whisky truly befitting the hotchpotch nature of the Committee, united by a love of all things smoky. Eureka!


Ex-Bourbon Cask PX Sherry Cask

NAS Non Aged Statement
52.2 ABV
Amber

An exuberant and complex dram

Full and fruity on the nose with cherry and juicy red apple. Caramel infused coffee grounds and cocoa powder are softened with a retrained smoke initially of heather bonfire and hand rolled sweet tobacco leaves. There are some herbal notes like cedar & fennel present in the distant background. With water dark chocolate and walnut oil comes through and more smoke emerges through the sweeter fruits. Like walking alongside a road that’s being freshly tarred!
An explosion of sweet flavours like nut toffee brittle, raisin fudge and dark fruits (fig, damson and plump cherries) is balanced with a rockpool salinity or salted crispy seaweed. Dark chocolate coated raisins lead into chicory and sweet cinnamon spices alongside a curious drying sensation. The smoke builds up to a crescendo of sweet applewood and a medicinal iodine, burnt moss and ash.
The finish is long and chewy with sweet treacle toffee aniseed spice, coal tar soap and burning embers.
Slàinte mhath to 25 years of the Ardbeg Committee!
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Ardbeg Eureka!
Bottle - 70cL