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Ardbeg 10 Year Old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky: A Modern Day Islay Classic?

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Today I review the Ardbeg 10 year old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky. The Ardbeg Distillery is one of the most popular distilleries on Islay. It was established in 1815 on the south shore of Islay and has survived being shuttered on a few occasions. This whisky has no colour added, is not chill filtered, and is bottled at 46% ABV. It is a vatting of First fill and refill Ex-Bourbon casks and is heavily peated at around 50 ppm. Is this whisky a modern day Islay classic that is available almost everywhere? And how does it stack up to the Ardbeg core range? That and more in this review. Cheers 🍻
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28 авг 2024

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@WhiskyNeighbour Год назад

Solid score, great Scotch. I think it is a modern day classic Islay whisky! Cool bottle coasters. Cheers!

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Thanks Jon! Overall it's a great one. Cheers 🥃

@JoelKorytko 3 месяца назад

I just tried my first Ardbeg, which happened to be the 10, along with you in this video! Somehow I had not had an Ardbeg yet. I must say, I am very much on board with your comments! Thanks so much for the review!

@whiskyonthewestcoast 3 месяца назад

Glad you got to try Ardbeg Joel! The 10 year is definitely the place to start. It's kinda the guiding light within the range that helps you explore their other offerings. Thanks for watching man. Cheers man 🥃

@leandropelizer4872 Год назад

Ardbeg 10 is definitely an excellent peated option for a beginner. My next Ardbeg purchase will be the Corry, for sure. Slàinte

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Love the Corry, probably even more than the Uigeadail(heresy, I know). Hope you enjoy it. Cheers 🥃

@justwhisky Год назад

Great review! Looking forward to the showdown. Suggest putting a Corry in there as well. Cheers 🥃

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Thanks! I love the Corry, probably more than Uigeadail. I think it would blow away everything else in this proposed lineup with its strength. I was thinking a good match-up for Corry would be Laphroaig 10 Cask Strength. Looking forward to your next review! Cheers, and thanks for the comment. 🥃

@watkinch Год назад

An Oa is definitely worth checking out - also a good value. More ashy, less sweet when compared to Oogie.

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Welp, it's on the never ending must try list 😆 Thanks for the recommendation.

@heavilypeted Год назад

Enjoyed the review and looking forward to more! The core range for me looks like this: (ranked from best to worst) Uigeadail > An Oa > 10 > Corryvreckan > Wee Beastie. Luckily Oogie can be had for just over $100 here in AB

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Hey thanks Heavily Peted! I should have ordered Oogie from AB instead of the Lag 16 that was on clearance for $182.90 🤣 Seriously, who's buying at that price(don't say ontario)? Still can't believe the deal you got on those Laphroaig 10 CS Batch #13's. In all seriousness I keep meaning to replace my Oogie, but I wind up just buying more IB's lol. You have An Oa pretty high so I should try that soon. Cheers 🥃

@heavilypeted Год назад

@@whiskyonthewestcoast I am done with the Diageo price gouging, Lagavulin 16 I'll never buy again due to what you get for the price. Others seem to be doing the same as quite a few of the '21 and '22 "special releases" are gathering dust on shelves, they seem to have hit an inflection point. I get what you mean about replacing Oogie given what prices most provinces charge. I'd skip at that price for sure, plenty of quality IB options out there for a lot less. That deal on got on the B13's was purely right place and right time...just gotta keep checking those shelves 😆

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Always checking shelves. Today I went back for another bottle of Lagavulin 12 year 2017 at $160 and found the price had been matched to 2021's price of $236. I kept walking.

@benzabenza2743 Год назад

We are Lucky here in Sweden because the whiskeyprices is quite low on man brands. First Isley whiskey i fell in love with was Lagavulin. Ardbeg 10 is very good but Ardbeg uigdail is my no 1 Ardbeg. Slainthe.

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Tough to beat the Peat and sherry combo of the Uigeadail. Lagavulin I think has turned more people into Islay lovers than any other distillery.

@dbunce10 2 месяца назад

Well done. Thanks. Subcribed

@whiskyonthewestcoast 2 месяца назад

Hey, thanks for watching! Cheers eh! 🥃

@watkinch Год назад

The Port Ellen Maltings change in policy WILL be super interesting. I'm sure the other dependent distillers are already making plans, but like you say: will be interesting to see how things evolve with their products.

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Thanks for the comment Dubweiser. Yeah, It's really fascinating. Part of me thinks it's a great opportunity to have some more unique distillery character say if Kilchoman and Laphroaig both move to completely floor malted on site somehow. Then again, I love distillate like Ledaig just the way it is. Can't wait to see where this heads.

@GregsWhiskyGuide Год назад

Great review, Matt, with less debatable statements than the ones I've seen even in 4 or 5 digit subs famous channels....For instance I will not give this whisky to a beginner (neither Laphie 10, btw) & as a first meeting with peated malt whiskies, for instance (also because I've experienced that in 2002 !). Now about caramel colouring, I don't agree that it is not coloured for sure, and nobody i've seen gives serious arguments to prove it is not, while I can say that 1/ it is not written on the bottle/label (it doesn't prove anything too, except that usually brands group the mentions of non-chill filtering & non colouring on the same place, so why is it absent ?) 2/I had the chance to experiment in their lab caramel colouring influence in Whisky (with John Glaser) & in Cognac (with Guilhem Grosperrin) colour, texture & taste...I don't wanna too long on this here, but what I can say shortly is that even a tiny amount (say a micro-drop) can influence the color & clear yellow doesn't mean it is not coloured at all in my opinion & observation...Many great Islay whiskies, even of 25 years old, when refill casked, can be super clear, clearer than that. So caramel colouring is not necessarily synonym of amber colour...Now, true, I have no certainty that this whisky is coloured, but no certaintly on the contrary either, just saying. Product wise, I like Ardbeg but it is not my favorite Scottish & even Islay distillery, compared to some others, even if I tried some great ones in the past & own a beautiful OB/nas of 9 yo that tastes like 20 with water added...but I had alas bad experiences consistency wise, between what I was tasting in shows or bars & my purchases, for instance (& also saw the liquid evolve a lot, and the choices of cask recipes too...). I was unlucky to come across twice a cork bottle of the 10 yo at the same shop (expertised as such by the shop specialist in whisky & distiller himself, so he agreed there was a big problem) and also I was unimpressed by a lot of Ardbeg Day/yearly limited releases even the Committee ones (value wise too !), so I didn't purchase any Ardbeg since a decade of so...(I know it will shock a lot of people). But today, this morning in fact, I used the opportunity of a generous discount coupon at my local supermarket to pick up a bottle of the "Ten" at a lower price, hoping it'll be to my liking & with no flaws...I will open it soon & try it for some time before I do a video review, so stay tuned & keep up the good work, will see the other videos of you linked to this asap...(especially that good idea of putting those Islay icons to competition, blind...). Cheers !

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Thanks Gregoire! I was just diving into this E150 issue and Ardbeg. It seems, unsurprisingly, that you're on to something. It seems that some countries like Hungary have batches of Ardbeg 10 declaring that they contain colouring. Some batches in Germany declare mit farbstoff, some do not. Sounds like until they declare on the bottle that they do not colour their whisky I'll have to assume that they have. Sort of a shame. Similarly I am increasingly suspicious of some distillers claims of "Non-chill filtered." If you put it through the same process but at a few degrees warmer it is less destructive, but still not good. Maybe if we had a well defined definition of what would be considered "Lightly barrier filtred" we could write that instead. I've lost confidence in the committee releases. I find the hope in the Ardbeg lineup is in the core range, though the Ardbeg Smoketrails(travel retail) was enjoyable. But I have found I am a sucker for Manzanilla Casks so maybe it was an extremely personal evaluation. I have skipped the last two years of committee releases but am being tempted by the new one made without the purifier on the still. I hope that new bottle of Ardbeg 10 is an enjoyable one. To have 2 corked bottles of it is fairly extreme. Sounds like the whole batch could have been contaminated. Cheers 🥃

@GregsWhiskyGuide Год назад

@@whiskyonthewestcoast Thanks, Matt...I agree that Scotch (for instance) regulations are still not the best, but it is also down to the producers to be more honest & transparent, which is hard to be sure of as a customer (that is why it is important to get infos "behind the scenes"). About chill filtration (which I also went to learn a bit more when visiting distilleries & the same indie cognac "maker") it is where the trick resides, as they don't tell at which temperature & which size of filters they used..slightly cooled (barrier as they say) filtration seems a good compromise (in order to maintain main flavors but not let cask sediments left in the bottles when filling them, but at the same time, in the case of relatively young whiskies matured in rather "preserved" for too much use casks, like the ones I worked with for my whisky, I can tell you that among the bottle samples we did of them (from a dozen of casks), none of them seem to have impurities & sediments, and the casks looked almost all in a good state, so they could have bottled em all STFC...Only a very light filtration was made i was told. But, indeed, when possible, at least for the non mass market products, I also think they should bottle the whiskies with no filtration at all, except if visually they see stuff remaining when filling bottles...

@sandymacdonald8485 Год назад

Good whisky but Port charlotte 10 beats it for me. This weeks cap gets an 8.

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

I do love PC, and Bruichladdich in general. I could certainly see it winning. Cap score noted! Hope to return to form next time 😀 Cheers Sandy 🥃

@dbunce10 2 месяца назад

close call for me, but it's all so subjective

@andrewmainprice2179 Год назад

Never tried ardbeg as there is too much hype surrounding this brand.

@whiskyonthewestcoast Год назад

Easy for that hype to be off-putting, especially with the cult of Ardbeg pushing everything. I'd say the humble 10 year is worth trying, at the very least to understand the distillery character, if you like peated whiskies. But I've been put off too, I continue to skip on special releases since the Scorch.