Ardbeg TEN - Black Mystery 2009

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Ardbeg TEN - Black Mystery 2009 70 centiliter , original buteljering, 46%
Officiell hemsida

Inköpt 2009-10-15 för SEK 600 = 8,57 kr/cl Oöppnad

Mina kommentarer:
Ny låda och L9 i den. Den här gången fick jag med vaxsetet också! Min poäng: 89 p

Tasting notes från whiskyfun: Officiella tasting notes:

Ardbeg 10yo ‘Ten’ (46%, OB, L8, new label, 2008)
The new label bears a strange text, claiming that ‘Ardbeg is considered by whisky connoisseurs to be not only the best of the Islay malt whiskies but the best whisky in the world’ (I spared you all the capital letters). Well, I wouldn’t claim that this is false or misleading (after all, Ardbeg is #1 on our list, thanks to all the wonderful single casks distilled in the 1970s) but I’m wondering who wrote that odd and rather inelegant line for them. It can’t be him again, can it? Colour: straw (certainly darker than the older version). Nose: frankly, I can’t get any easily noticeable differences with the ‘older’ 2008. Well, after trying very hard, I’d say maybe it’s just a little drier and even less fruity, even if the older 2008 was anything but fruity on the nose. Also a tad less earthy and a tad smokier. Maybe a little more ‘monolithic’ but there are many maybes here. Mouth: once again, we’re extremely close to the older 2008 and it’s even harder to pick differences at the attack... Maybe it’s slightly prickly this time, rougher as if it was younger and certainly much less ‘round and fruity’ than the 2006. A little more lemon as well, more ginger too… And maybe also a little more vanilla. Also something that reminds me of Gorilka vodka, herbs liqueur... Finish: long, with more pepper and lemon. Comments: so, did it change? Well, yes and no. I’d say this version is maybe a little rougher and maybe less polished, with this faint prickliness that’s maybe a little puzzling. Yes, a lot of maybes again, but frankly, what a strange statement on the label! Would you expect that kind of line on your BMW, on your Patek Philippe or on your Cohiba? Or on your Louis Vuitton bag for that matter?
SGP:357 - 86 points Nose: Exceptional balance and depth. At full strength the aroma is a beguiling mix of toffee and chocolate sweetness, cinnamon spice and medicinal phenols. Fresh citrus and floral notes of white wine are evident as are melon, pear drops, general creaminess, fresh phenolic aroma os seaspray (iodine) and smoked fish. Hickory and coffe emerge later as the most volatile top notes fade.
Taste: An initial moderate and clean sweetness is rapidly followed by a mouthful of deep peat notes, with tobacco smoke and strong espresso coffee, which gives way to treacle sweetness and liquorice. The mouth feel is firstly lightly spiced (astringent), the chewing, mouthwatering, full and finally dry.
Finish: Long and smoky. A smoky sweetness is left on the palate, with a crushed peat and sweet malted cereal character.


Ardbeg TEN - Black Mystery 2009	70 centiliter , original buteljering, 46% Officiell hemsida
Inköpt 2009-10-15 för SEK 600 = 8,57 kr/cl	Oöppnad
Mina kommentarer: Ny låda och L9 i den. Den här gången fick jag med vaxsetet också!	Min poäng: 89 p
Tasting notes från whiskyfun:	Officiella tasting notes:
Ardbeg 10yo ‘Ten’ (46%, OB, L8, new label, 2008) The new label bears a strange text, claiming that ‘Ardbeg is considered by whisky connoisseurs to be not only the best of the Islay malt whiskies but the best whisky in the world’ (I spared you all the capital letters). Well, I wouldn’t claim that this is false or misleading (after all, Ardbeg is #1 on our list, thanks to all the wonderful single casks distilled in the 1970s) but I’m wondering who wrote that odd and rather inelegant line for them. It can’t be him again, can it? Colour: straw (certainly darker than the older version). Nose: frankly, I can’t get any easily noticeable differences with the ‘older’ 2008. Well, after trying very hard, I’d say maybe it’s just a little drier and even less fruity, even if the older 2008 was anything but fruity on the nose. Also a tad less earthy and a tad smokier. Maybe a little more ‘monolithic’ but there are many maybes here. Mouth: once again, we’re extremely close to the older 2008 and it’s even harder to pick differences at the attack... Maybe it’s slightly prickly this time, rougher as if it was younger and certainly much less ‘round and fruity’ than the 2006. A little more lemon as well, more ginger too… And maybe also a little more vanilla. Also something that reminds me of Gorilka vodka, herbs liqueur... Finish: long, with more pepper and lemon. Comments: so, did it change? Well, yes and no. I’d say this version is maybe a little rougher and maybe less polished, with this faint prickliness that’s maybe a little puzzling. Yes, a lot of maybes again, but frankly, what a strange statement on the label! Would you expect that kind of line on your BMW, on your Patek Philippe or on your Cohiba? Or on your Louis Vuitton bag for that matter? SGP:357 - 86 points	Nose: Exceptional balance and depth. At full strength the aroma is a beguiling mix of toffee and chocolate sweetness, cinnamon spice and medicinal phenols. Fresh citrus and floral notes of white wine are evident as are melon, pear drops, general creaminess, fresh phenolic aroma os seaspray (iodine) and smoked fish. Hickory and coffe emerge later as the most volatile top notes fade. Taste: An initial moderate and clean sweetness is rapidly followed by a mouthful of deep peat notes, with tobacco smoke and strong espresso coffee, which gives way to treacle sweetness and liquorice. The mouth feel is firstly lightly spiced (astringent), the chewing, mouthwatering, full and finally dry. Finish: Long and smoky. A smoky sweetness is left on the palate, with a crushed peat and sweet malted cereal character.