Old & Rare Magnum Ardbeg 1991 30 Year Old 1.5L

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nAn Ardbeg 30 Year Old, a cask strength dram that is a huge dram in many ways. This single malt whisky is released by bottlers Hunter Laing and is part of the Old & Rare collection. Distilled in March 1991, this was only bottled in May 2021. A single cask whisky, this is a giant Magnum bottle that contains 150cl of the fantastic liquid, enough to share. This whisky was matured in a refill hogshead and is bottled at 53.2% abv. We don’t know if this is a record for The Whisky Shop, but this has a truly tiny yield of just 39 bottles. An unforgettable bottle.
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nRich, gold in colour, the nose is an archetypal Islay. Aromas of sweet iodine, sea salt, and peat smoke waft upwards. It is full in body, and a sweet vanilla note comes to the fore before further hits of iodine, sea salt, and peat arrive. The finish is spectacularly long, lingering, with a big hint of peat smoke.
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