Ardbeg Galileo

Overall rating: 87.17/100
votes: 876

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Ardbeg
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Vintage: 1999
Bottled: 06.2012
Stated Age: 12 years old
Casktype: ex-Marsala and ex-Bourbon Casks
Number of bottles: 15000
Strength: 49.0 % Vol.
Size: 50 ml 700 ml 750 ml 4500 ml
Bottle code: L12 16x
Barcode: 5010494911817
Added on: 15 Aug 2012 11:24 am

Average value

€ 322,83

Found 39 online shops. Lowest price:

€ 190,00

	Buy in the Market	€ 214,50

	Buy in the Market	€ 220,00

	Buy in the Market	€ 229,00

	Buy in the Market	€ 229,00

	Whiskykeller	€ 299,90

	Gevo Slijterij	€ 299,95

	The Wine Cellar	£ 299,99

	Amazon.es	€ 305,27

	Buy in the Market	£ 320,00

	Buy in the Market	€ 399,00

Create a free Whiskybase account to view 29 additional offers and compare bottle prices of sellers all over the world
Create free account

123 × in wishlist

876 × member ratings

4021 × in collection

Default bottling

There are 3 other releases…

Whisky Reviews for Ardbeg Galileo

101 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 87.17 points

hs305 scored this whisky 89 points
03 May 2017 9:52 am

[October, 2012] I had this dram during a Prof. Schobert "Islay" tasting at Bonn.

In my old rating system (ten scales that translate into WB points: 50 - 66 - 75 - 80 - 82,5 - 85 - 87,5 - 90 - 92,5 - 95) I scored it 87,5. My notes state I would have scored it 90 points without these slight unpleasant sulphurous notes. Nevertheless I bought a bottle.
schero scored this whisky 90 points
28 Jul 2017 11:45 pm
That's exactly how I like Ardbeg. Delicious

Nose

Restrained Ardbeg smoke, very ashy and sweet, accompanied by wine barrels, sweet grapes, milk chocolate, cotton candy, light roasted aromas, roasted almonds

Taste

Short sweet grapes, then takes the subtle smoke, beautiful creamy with light peppery, very light oak

Finish

Aromatic peat smoke with oak flavor and the sweetness sticking to the palate
face scored this whisky 87 points
18 Sep 2019 8:28 am
Nose

82 82

Taste

89 89

Finish

89 89
ASWhisky scored this whisky 89 points
24 Mar 2014 12:33 am
This Ardbeg is not for nothing my soul-teaser whisky
dangerously pleasant and delicious to drink
my beloved tension is limited
just a soulmaker for smoke lovers

I touched the sky

Nose

mild sherry, fine peat smoke, citrus aromas, caramel, sweaty leather, smoked bacon rind

Taste

soft, cool sweetness that warms the palate, liquid chocolate with bacon
Malty sweet peat that smokes in the throat, roasted coffee beans in chocolate, peat smoke and again malt sweetness

Finish

long and pleasant
Wood, a slight tobacco note, a lot of malty sweetness, salt, smoked bacon, brine
Robinzon25 scored this whisky 88 points
01 Oct 2019 12:22 am
I liked Galileo, there is nothing special about him, but he is a very nice and well-tailored molt.

Nose

Spicy, perfumery and certainly smoky. Tar, sole, tires, laundry soap, sprouted potatoes. The moist oceanic air is adjacent to the smell of Moroccan spices, dried fruits and genuine leather.

Taste

Brackish, smoky enough with notes of bread and tropical fruits

Finish

Medium duration. At first there was a lot of fragrant thick smoke, then vanilla and linden honey replaced it. In the end, pleasant echoes of brown bread and hot smoked mackerel remain in the mouth.
Iron133 scored this whisky 86 points
18 Sep 2019 9:23 am
Nose

86 86

Taste

88 88

Finish

85 85
Stanzeflasche scored this whisky 88 points
29 Aug 2019 1:04 pm
First a fruity sherry, candied cherry, currants, blackcurrant, cinnamon, star anise, then peat mounts, grimy, rocky, oiled. The wedding is done after a short fight. Finally, an iodized freshness, with however a thicker and earthy peat. In the end the sherry is discreet, but it is reborn in the mouth, almost vinous, thick and tasty, muscatel grape, cranberry juice, then the spices rise. It has a very long finish, deep enough, caramel, red fruits and caraway.

Nose

89 89

Taste

87 87

Finish

89 89
DB1965 scored this whisky 87 points
24 Aug 2019 9:36 am
It is a beautifully created Ardbeg. The finish on a Marsala wine barrel works very well.

Nose

88 88

Natural, soot and tar, bacon! caramel, ripe tropical fruits such as banana and mango. Delicious!

Taste

87 87

Roasted coffee beans, chocolate, fudge, again bacon, sweet, ripe banana, spicy. Lots of smoke!

Finish

87 87

A long smoky finish. Bacon is again emphatically present here. A delicious tobacco note!
mothers_finest scored this whisky 89 points
03 Aug 2019 9:10 am

With 860 Member Ratings, I probably do not need to contribute my mustard in full. But in short, for me one of the best Ardbeg special releases. Find it even better than the acclaimed SN09 SN10, and the alligator anyway, which seemed far too immature (spicy). I still drink Galileo regularly. I like how harmonious the malt is. Has no subjective false notes and the interaction sweet and greasy smoke fits and I like it!

(So why "only" 89 points?) I think that's (albeit a bit unfair) due to the smoky character, and I find it hard to hear a similar complexity in smoky whiskys as in non-smoky ones, so forgive the smoke a bit far the youth of a malth, but holds one (or me) tastes behind the facade.)
Ainulindale scored this whisky 88 points
07 Jun 2019 11:01 am
A good dram, very Ardbeg.

Nose

86 86

Very fresh and salty nose. Kind of sweet and fruity too. Fleshy fruits, peach notably.

Taste

90 90

Peat comes strong in the mouth in the very ardbeg way . After that an intense fruity, peachy and milk chocolatey thing comes through slowly drifting first to cinnamon and ginger then to rosebuds.

Finish

87 87

The finish is very mild yet leaves a pleasant taste or smoke and roses.

Tastingtags

Add tasting tags by clicking the flavours you recognized in this whisky.

Whiskybase

Whiskybase is founded in 2007 with the goal to create the biggest resource of whisky information in the world. A community driven website built by and for whisky enthusiasts.

Whiskybase B.V.
Zwaanshals 530
3035 KS Rotterdam
The Netherlands

KVK: 52072819
VAT: NL850288836B01