This is Ardcore, Scotland’s most punky smoked whiskey


  • Ardebg distillery launches a new limited edition to celebrate this year’s Fèis Ìle festival

Brewed with roasted black malt over peat fires, notes of charcoal and sweet smoke, anise and dark chocolate. This is Arcore, the limited edition of Ardbeg whisky, that this fourth of June celebrates its annual party at the festival Fèis Ile de Islay (Scotland) and transfers its hooligan spirit to Madrid to the delight of lovers of this noble distillate born in 1815.

The bottling is inspired by the Scottish brand’s punk past and pays tribute to the main port of Islay, the southernmost island of the Hebrides archipelago, Port Ellen, known as ‘Punk Ellen’ in the hectic 1970s.

The drink is powerful “like biting a spiky ball”, says the head of distillation and creation of Ardbeg, Bill Lumsden, before showing the new exclusive edition for the more than 120,000 members of the Ardbeg club from all over the world, among which is the Prince Charles of England.

Like many other Scottish distilleries, Ardbeg had been operating for years before 1815, the date of its foundation, but in illegality, they explain in the Whiskey Club Madrid.

The malted barley distilled in its large stills starts from a minimum turbidity of 55 phenols and is mixed with the water of the nearby lakes of Uigeadail and Arinambear. They are springs that run through fields of black peat and give the whiskey a unique, marine and iodized flavour.

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To preserve the oils and aromas provided by the wood, none of their edits are cold filtered, nor is it colored, and it is bottled at a minimum graduation of 46% alcohol. In this type of whiskies, barley dries in the heat and smoke of a peat fire. Formerly used in Scotland as a method of heating homes in the cold winter, peat is a natural fuel formed by the compaction of vegetation, animals and moss from this area of ​​Scotland.

On burning, peat smoke produces the phenols that the barley absorbs in the drying process to give the characteristic flavor of these Scottish drinks.


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