Ardbeg Drum Single Malt

Description

In an Islay time gone byon the last day of the Feis Ile Festivallocals would transform everything from harvesters to hatchbacks into magnificent floats. If it had wheels, they decorated it.Adorned with brilliant flowers and fabrics, these vibrant mobile gardens were a sight to behold. Starting at the pier in Port Ellen, the procession would roll by the crowds at Ardbeg, before honking and tooting its way back to be judged. This was a typically Islay cavalcade of colour.And this year, it just so happens that Ardbeg Drum is a perfectly peaty excuse to celebrate.In Ardbeg Drum, Ardbeg Scotch whisky from ex-Bourbon casks has been rested in ex-rum casks from the Americas to produce a downright wondrous paradiddle of aromas. Fragrant pine resin, woodsmoke and seaspray dance alongside ripe banana and pineapple. Lavender, liquorice and vanilla sway into rich dark chocolate, before parading into a long, smoky finish.Non chill-filtered at 52.0% ABVTASTING NOTES COLOURDark gold.NOSESmoked apple and pineapple, ripe banana, fragrant pine resin and subtle woodsmoke. Dry cocoa powder, cinnamon and ginger spiced dates and floating lavender notes.TASTEPeppery texture, huge smoky palate, oil, tar, creosote, rich dark chocolate. A treasure of spicesclove, liquorice and ginger mingles with smoked vanilla.FINISHIntense smoke on the finish, more spice with a sweet coffee liqueur finish.