Ardbeg 19yo 1991 (Douglas Laing Old & Rare)

A fun independent bottling of a 19 year old Ardbeg from Douglas Laing’s “Old and Rare” series of bottlings. This is a single cask that was distilled in 1991, and bottled at cask strength in 2010 with a yield of 236 bottles.

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Distiller: Ardbeg
Bottler: Douglas Laing
Distilled: 1991
Bottled: 2010
ABV: 52.1%
Age: 19yo
Cask type: Refill hogsheads
Source: Pour at Grand Terminus, Bergen, Norway
Setting: Unblind

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Nose: Waxy, oil lamp, day old rained out campfire, restrained smokiness. Smoked beef jerky, leather furniture. Musty.
Palate: Meaty, mint chocolate. Somehow simultaneously light, but full and mouth-coating. Not sure how that works.
Finish: Velvety lamb/rosemary funk, ash, woodsy pine, some citrus.
Overall: One super interesting pour. I am usually pretty biased against Ardbeg, but I can’t deny this is great stuff. It delivers really interesting meaty smoky notes, but the corners are rounded off and it has a nice musty funk hanging about it.
Rank: 7