I was able to take my bottle with me on location on Ardbog Day 2013.
It is therefore something very special for me ...
The taste immediately reminds me of the distillery, the sea, the salty spray that blows from the sea. Also kelp, medical smoke, very much even. But also caramel, wood (not unpleasant) and bright fruits, also a little flowery it seems to me in the finish. A very round, well drinkable Ardbeg!

88/100

N: I'd have believed it if I’d been told this was sherried Springbank, such is the softness of the peated smokiness and its likeness to a Springbank 15yo I’m currently enjoying.
T: Displays proudly its manzanilla sherry oak plumage, the cask doing most of the work without overly exerting.
F: The smoke comes at the end.
C: I loved this the first time I tried it in 2014, very possibly from the same bottle. Five years on I can better see it for what it is - possibly one of best manzanilla cask whisky I've tried and a really successful job. Same score as last time.

an Ardbeg !!
an almost old now, less trafficked than the last singular productions:
intense nose on peat, smoke and wet side of wet but dried grass!
moist wood, spices raised, lemon that arrives with a little cooked apples, the singular taste of the "hospital corridor".
the mouth gives a little more on citrus fruit, but not much in fact, on vanilla still in return and on the wet peat and feast, there is salt, seaweed discovered in a small harbor with spray!
final on the same scents! long enough because of the thickness of the peat injected into the bottle!

Amazingly sweet, spicy, exotic fruits, combined with vanilla, wood, slightly vinous sherry and of course peat, which holds back amazingly. In the finish he is there for a long time. Great whisky.

N21 P21 F22 B21

I got no power here!

In my opinion one of the better "Special Releases" completions by Ardbeg.
Apart from that, I'm also a big Manzanilla fan.
The Ardbog begins excitingly with aromas such as freshly brewed espresso, some brackish water, burnt rubber, old leather, tobacco notes and the typical Ardbegnoten. Towards the end juicy oranges and overripe cherries and a little clove. Finally, a diesel steam hammer ;-)
In the mouth then an explosion and smoke and red fruits. The Ardbegsüße jumps right after. Again and again plump ripe plums, seasoning and the above cherries in the interplay. Some coffee and caramel as well as toffee at the end.
Long slightly dry and slightly woody finish with lots of smoke and ash.
I'm excited again. My current order: Alligator - Ardbog- Day- Galileo - Dark Cove - Kelpie - Auriverdes - Perpetuum