是阿貝的新貨嗎
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This 20 year-old Ardbeg (distilled February 1991) was bottled by Malts of Scotland for Hotel Bero in Ostend (owned by Lindores member Geert Bero and the location for the Lindores Whisky Fest). Anyone can try it in the hotel bar, but you can only buy a bottle when you are sleeping at the hotel.
It was presented at the Lindores Whisky Fest last weekend and I heard some discussions about the price. Many people wondered how a 20 year-old whisky could be worth € 225, but remember sherried Ardbegs are thinly scattered. Douglas Laing released a 1991 refill cask earlier this year and that was rather scandalously priced at € 450. So yes, it is expensive but relatively cheap at the same time. Ardbeg is not selling casks to independent bottlers any more, so I’m afraid the times of affordable medium-aged sherry cask Ardbegs are now officially over!
Ardbeg 20 yo 1991 (48,4%, Malts of Scotland for Hotel Bero 2011, sherry hogshead #MoS 11003, 214 btl.)Nose: balanced nose with excellent notes of old ashes and tar on the one hand and rounded, chocolaty notes on the other hand. Sweet almonds and rhubarb compote. Lovely tobacco leaves. Old leather. Relatively soft iodine and hints of camphor. Not extremely big (which is a good thing – it’s not over-sherried) and quite brilliant. Mouth: starts rich and oily with sweet peat smoke. Again some almonds, now mixed with dried fruits and lemon drops. The smoke grows stronger, the tar shows up again. No brute forces here, it’s all about integrating the different flavours. Finish: long on dried fruits and smoke with a softly coastal edge.
The sherry complements the whisky very well, and the harmonious qualities might actually justify the price in my opinion. Available at the Hotel Bero for € 225.
Score: 91/100
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Mikuku
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Mikuku
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Hotel Bero have the best shrimp croquettes in Belgium. Sometimes they also have whisky. Colour: amber. Nose: it’s like smoking a Partagas while walking on a freshly tarred road. Seriously, it’s immensely dry and tarry. Tarry ropes, hessian, old car engine, garage, coal smoke, turpentine and bitter chocolate. All that isn’t quite ‘wham-bam’ but big it is, getting more and more chocolaty. Mouth: rich, half bitter/tarry, half fruity. Not that all that didn’t mingle, not at all. Orange cake and a little grenadine with some tobacco, aniseed, liquorice, rhubarb pie and orange drops, with the medicinal side in the background (pine sap and eucalyptus in this case). It’s not quite a big-bodied Ardbeg, which the relatively low ABV% already suggested, but I think it gained refinement and it has a total lack of any vulgar ‘ooh-ahs’. Well, I know what I mean. Finish: quite long and now I cannot not think of some mid-1960s Ardbeg. In fact, it’s got something of the ‘Very Old 30’, including the relatively light body. Comments: could this baby be the last of the Mohicans? One of the very last glimmers of old Ardbeg? SGP:367 - 91 points.
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