Ardmore 10 Yr. Signatory Bottling Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The nose shows mesquite smoke with grilled peaches and apricots, sea spray, white flowers, white fudge, and honeycomb. The palate has an initial sensation of sweet wood smoke with fudge, grilled stone fruits, saltine crackers, and a lift of honey on the exhale. We enjoyed this dram quite a bit, and hope you do too! D&M Tasting Notes. Distilled: 10/27/2009 Bottled 9/21/2020 Cask #706483 178 bottles

This Ardmore was distilled a few days before Halloween in 2009 with around 15 ppm of peat in the barley and matured 10 years in a former bourbon barrel previously used to age Islay Whisky. This seems to be almost standard practice with Beam Suntory transferring their barrels from their Islay distillery after dumping to give Ardmore just a bit more of a peat hit. In September 2020 the barrel was dumped and yielded 178 bottles maintained at cask strength of 56.9% ABV