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This realease of Equilibrium, the 3rd from Whisky Sponge, is a 22 year old peated and sherried Ardmore. 88.41pts Whiskybase
Producer Description:
We couldn’t complete the Whisky Sponge series without also tying up the loose end that is our side series: Equilibrium. This mini-series, designed to showcase whiskies that balance sherry and peat flavour profiles, was always intended to be a trilogy, so we are happy to finally be able to complete it. This is a 22 year old Highland Single Malt, composed of medium peated examples from 1997 and 2000, refill matured, sherry finished and then married in refill sherry to bring everything together before finally being bottled with a few degrees reduction at 53%. This is rich, layered, slightly softer on the peat and richer on the sherry, but overall a gorgeously flavoursome and luxurious example of this long lusted after flavour combination!
700 mlProducer Tasting Notes:
Nose: very richly sherried, with sweet, old school cream sherry notes, infused with pipe and cigar tobacco, rancio, dry earthy notes and a wonderfully dry, herbal and peppery background peat smoke. The peat makes the sherry more gentle and the net effect is a rich, dry, aromatically peaty and sherried old style malt that noses older than it is.
Palate: the peat starts to dominate more assertively but it is still well matched by the richness of the sherry, which comes across with more raisiny sweetness now. More dark fruits, treacle, chewing tobacco and something like smoked rancio!
Finish: very long, thick, tarry, more drying and herbaceous peat, cured meats and medicines.
$469.99
This 1997 vintage Ardmore was matured 24 years in a Refill Bourbon Hogshead before bottling at 52.4%.
Producer Note
"Since the dawn of creation, conscious beings have been asking themselves one thing: why does Ardmore taste like the smelly matter you find in Scottish farmyard...? The answer to this question has eluded the greatest scientific minds in the cosmos. Mayans, Vulcans, Time Lords, Vogons and David Attenborough have all tried, and failed, to discover the pungent truth. All we can do is play Sponge scrabble and ruminate deeply and profoundly, on the sheer number of silly toilet-centric words you can invent in association with Ardmore and all its bum-scented glory. Please enjoy this extremely classical 25 year old Ardmore that has been matured full term in a withered old refill hogshead and bottled at natural cask strength, thus retaining its maximum dung-addled distillate potency."
$359.99
53% - 2003 - 19 Years Refill Sherry / 2 Years in First Fill Sherry Hogshead
Westport = Glenmorangie
88.67 Points Whiskybase
Producer Description
"A new bottling of that famously teaspooned tipple: Westport. A blended malt distilled in 2003 and bottled at 21 years of age and natural cask strength. Matured in a refill sherry hogshead and finished for over two years in a 1st fill sherry hogshead. This is spicy, darkly fruity and full of classical, richly sherried, highland character. No giraffes were harmed in the bottling of this whisky."
$464.99
Bottled at 22 years of age, this 2000 vintage Ardmore was matured in a Refill Hogshead before finishing in a first fill sherry butt. Bottled at a cask strength of 54.2%. 88.25pts Whiskybase
Producer Note
"This 2000 Ardmore is a great medley of farmy, earthy, smoky and sherry notes. We don’t normally go for whiskies that have been finished or re-racked. However, in this instance, the quality and richness of the sherry influence married so well with the fat, lightly peaty Ardmore distillate character that we couldn’t resist this lovely dark and gooey concoction. Bottled at natural cask strength, the finish is long and going towards tar resins, wood oils, mineral oil, strop leather and sooty waxes."