Ardbeg 1998 Renaissance

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Ardbeg 1998 Renaissance

Category	Single Malt Whisky from
District	Islay
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Vintage	1998
Bottled	2008
Age	10 years old
Strength	55.9 % Vol.
Bottle size	700 ml
Availability
Price	± € 140.00 \| £ 118.27 \| $ 180.17

Added: 14 Jun. 2008 5:04 pm

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Notes & Reviews

Malt Hans

posted 12 Apr. 2013

Malt Hans gave this whisky 90 points

Smoky and fruity aroma, apples, lime, cherry,
camphor, pepper, floral honey, mustard, malt, linseed oil, turpentine
and vanilla. Marzipan sweet and smoky taste, parsley, pepper,
eucalyptus, anise, orange marmalade, lapsang souchong and ginger. Long,
smoky, spicy and fruity end.

Andy

posted 26 Feb. 2013

Andy gave this whisky 91 points

Weighted rate

91

Nose - aroma

92

Initial taste

93

Body

92

Finish

90

Price

85

Presentation

88

Furtia

posted 3 Dec. 2012

Furtia gave this whisky 86 points

Weighted rate

86

Nose - aroma

88

Initial taste

86

Body

84

Finish

85

Price

86

Presentation

87

sebou007

posted 21 Nov. 2012

sebou007 gave this whisky 89 points

Color

Pale gold

Nose

On commence sur une légère odeur d'orange, de la fumée, de l'iode et du citron confit (avec de la fleur de sel).
On passe ensuite sur des graines torréfiées (amande, noisette, cacahuète) et un peu de café.
Un joli côté résine et eucalyptus (sirop pour la toux) et un brin viandé et fumé (cendrier).
Pour un whisky de cet âge, c'est plutôt complexe et intéressant. Merci à eux de ne pas l'avoir dilué...
Avec une goutte d'eau, le nez devient encore plus fin, genre fleur de sel sur du citron. Un peu de parfum et de miel (genre hydromel).

Taste

On reste sur des notes fumées et iodées. Du citron très léger, des amandes torréfiées. C'est bon et dynamique.
C'est assez ciselé, les agrumes, la tourbe et la noisette s'entremêlent très joliment.
Sur la fin, une amertume bien présente qui n'emporte cependant pas la bouche.
Ca manque un brin de complexité, mais on prend du plaisir.
L'eau l'apaise un peu (c'est presque dommage de tenter d'apprivoiser une bête pareille), lui donne un côté pomme verte et lui enlève un tout petit peu d'amertume. Ce n'est pas nécessaire.

Finish

Longue et chaude, sur la fumée, le bois et le citron confit.

Comments

Un whisky de très belle facture. Pas hyper complexe, mais efficace.
Un nez et une bouche très cohérents, même si le nez est plus fin et complexe. La bouche est un peu d'un seul bloc, un brin amère.
Un bon blast de tourbe !

markjedi1

posted 2 May. 2012

markjedi1 gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Pale gold

Nose

Once past the initial alcohol burn, the nose is honey-sweet. Sure, there is iondine and seaweeds and a big chunk of peat, but my olfactory organs attention is drawn by the sweetness, that manifests itself in the form of chocolate, nuts and candied fruit! After a few minutes, it becomes very medicinal, like disinfectant. At the end a (totally un-annoying but rather excellent) hint of strawberry bubblegum. I am not making this up. Wait. I am, am I not?

Taste

The attack is very hot, very spicy and wonderfully sweet, but peat and even charcoal elbow their way to the front. Very smoky. When that initial wave has passed, apples and vanilla surface. Boy, oh boy, this is the good stuff. Add water? What am I? Nuts?

Finish

The finish is once again grandiose in length, sweet and smoky.

Comments

I can see why Ardbeg has so many followers. This Renaissance stuff is brilliant!

Mark Dermul Toshan Man

Collector57

posted 6 Sep. 2011

Collector57 gave this whisky 86 points

Color

Pale straw

Nose

Really fruity. Some smoke/peat but really it's the fruit that hits me.

Taste

Sweet fruits (exotic fruits) and ginger plus the inevitable peat. With a few drops of water it gets even more fruity - pineapple?

Finish

All that is still present in the longish finish.

Comments

GLEN MAUR

posted 7 Jun. 2011

GLEN MAUR gave this whisky 90 points

Weighted rate

90

Nose - aroma

90

Initial taste

90

Body

89

Finish

92

Price

92

Presentation

89

Lafroy

posted 1 Apr. 2011

Lafroy gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Old gold

Nose

Very peaty and smoky, with strong hints of pears and lemon. Excellent I must say. Additionally hints of smoked bacon, salt and potatoes baked in a fireplace, some pepper and a lot of smoke.

Taste

Very intensive, peaty, fruity, sour, smoky, sweet with hints of seaweeds, honey, salt and alga. Very evolving and perfectly balanced Islay.

Finish

Very long and peaty, smoky, sweet, powerful and complex.

barto

posted 6 Nov. 2010

barto gave this whisky 92 points

Color

Pale straw

Nose

At first peat, then comes a marvelous mixture of sweet pears and vanilla, rubber, tobacco

Taste

A mixture of peat and fruit with some rich vanilla ice cream.

Finish

Sweet tobacco smoke, peat, vanilla

Comments

A masterpiece!

CrilleVBG

posted 19 May. 2010

CrilleVBG gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Pale straw

Nose

Of course, fumes, but also a bit more fruity than the 10yo.

Taste

Very fruity, but allso smokiness. A glorious assault on the taste buds, from 55.9%.

Finish

Medium long finish.

Comments

This fruity and smoky works together better than most with this combo.

"The last time we drank whisky, we started returning things we never stole"

I_SPEY

posted 12 Aug. 2009

I_SPEY gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Pale gold

Nose

Typical Ardbeg, with a fruity nose. Lemon raspberry/gooseberry jelly mix with the usual vanilla and dry chocolate notes.

Taste

Vanilla and cinnamon. Lots of peat but not too heavy. Marvellous dram.

Finish

Medium and again the peat, perfect peat.Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Comments

Great, just great!

"One cannot hurry the little grey cells, Captain." Hercule Poirot

hape

posted 18 Feb. 2009

hape gave this whisky 86 points

Color

Pale gold

Nose

Leicht torfig, Stachelbeeren,Quitten, Vanille,

Taste

(pur)SÃ�¼ÃŸ, lieblich, leichte OrangentÃ¶ne, scharf

Finish

mittlerer Abgang

Comments

guter Ardbeg

slothmister

posted 15 Sep. 2008

slothmister gave this whisky 75 points

Nice, strong version of the standard 10yo. This is a limited edition release, the last of the "young" serious which includes the 7yo Very Young, 8yo Still Young, 9yo Almost there.

In my opinion it is not as good as the 10yo but with the addition of a little water you do get a bit more grass on the nose and the palate is a little sweeter.

Rates

Overall rating

87.80

MM rate

85

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