This Scotch is rich amber in color. It has a collision of waxy dark chocolate, warm blackcurrants and Muscovado sugar with a burst of plump cherries and earthy pine needles leaping from its depths. On the palate, it has deep, peppery and chewy flavors.

A smooth creamy texture leads into a huge syrupy sweetness flavors of milk chocolate treacle toffee aniseed orange and smoky tea leaves. Gentle sweet spices (nutmeg and cinnamon), some cigar smoke, and a very unusual flavor of grilled artichokes. Wood is always present in the spirit gently nutty and reminiscent of a carpenter's workshop. A long sweet finish with floral overtones mint toffee and some gentle malty biscuit notes.

This Scotch is deep gold in color. It is rich and weighty with heady and smoky aromatics. It is full flavored and rich with a deep mouth-coating texture, the taste is an intriguing balance between sweet, spicy and deep smoky flavors. A burst of winter spices sets off a smoky-spicy explosion countered by a sumptuous mid-palate of honey-glazed smoked food and chewy treacle. Waves of deep smoky tones and rich aromas build up on the palate like a fine Montecristo cigar.

Ardbeg Ten Years Old is revered around the world as the peatiest, smokiest, most complex single malt of them all. Yet it does not flaunt the peat, rather it gives way to the natural sweetness of the malt to produce a whisky of perfect balance.

Ardbeg Ten Years Old is revered around the world as the peatiest, smokiest, most complex single malt of them all. Yet it does not flaunt the peat, rather it gives way to the natural sweetness of the malt to produce a whisky of perfect balance.