Ardmore 1991 Cask Strength Gordon & Macphail

Ardmore 20 Year Old 1990 Signatory Vintage

A few years ago, Signatory bottled this 20 Year Old Ardmore with a label that sported Wine Treated Barrel. This merely means that an old cask was revitalized and infused with sherry to impregnate the oak. The sherry then goes down the drain and the cask is ready to receive the spirit. Let us find out if it is any good. The nose is aromatic on...

Score 84/100

Ardmore 12 Year Old 2009 Whisky Club of Luxembourg

In the same series, Berry Bros & Rudd had previously bottled a Linkwood 2009, but this time the boys and girls of the whisky club in Luxembourg wanted an Ardmore. It also comes from a sherry butt and is bottled at – drum roll – 64.3%. Makes you wonder at what strength this Ardmore went into the cask. The color does not necessarily suggest a...

Score 86/100

Ardmore 12 Year Old 2007 SMWS 66.165

The SMWS – or Scotch Malt Whisky Society – likes Ardmore. In 2019 they already bottled the 165th cask from this distillery. At cask strength, of course. The Highland malt matured on a refill ex-bourbon hogshead, which made the tasting panel decide to call this whisky 'Mesmerizing and entertaining'. Who makes that up? The malt is particularly pale....

Score 85/100

Ardmore - Traditional Cask

Vanilla and clover shine through the maltiness and overriding bourbon of the nose, but don't make their presence known on a first sniff. A light, soft body lets the flavors of this moderately peaty Scotch unfurl nicely. A good bit of the peat smoke is edged out by the bourbon, but there's more than enough for a highly drinkable whisky. A...

Score 60/100