When I saw this on shelves it looked pretty wild and got my attention, but I didn’t give it much thought beyond that. But after looking into it and learning that wine casks were used (typically a high scoring factor for me) the stuff inside the bottle caught my attention. After trying Alligator, the heavily charred nature of those casks made this appeal to me even more. By the time I opened it, this was definitely one of the ones I was most anticipating.
Minutia: Matured mostly in ex-Bourbon casks, with some matured in red wine casks which had been toasted giving the inside “grooves”, and bottled in 2018. Enjoyed neat in a glencairn.
Color: Auburn, 1.5.
Nose: Fruit over smoke, pine needles, bit creamy.
Taste: Lightly smoked meat, mint.
Finish: Smoked fish, sweet fruit smoke.
While not the one I enjoyed the most, at the time of its release this is the Ardbeg Day bottling I find most interesting. I got a handful of things I didn’t expect and haven’t gotten much of in whisky at all. Has me really looking forward to Blaaack.
Score: 87
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