Ardbeg

Ardbeg Ardcore Launch Day Tasting at Getränke-Paradies Wolf (Event)

Ardbeg Ardcore Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Launch Day Tasting at Getränke Paradies Wolf in Hamburg

Put on your torn Sex Pistols shirt and dust off that old leather jacket, fellas. ‘Cause Ardbeg’s new Feis Isle bottling Ardcore is a celebration of all things punk – the music, the aesthetics, the attitude. The whisky, which is said to “punkture your palate and trash your taste buds”, (more…)

Weinquelle Lühmann’s “100 Years” Tasting incl. Black Bowmore 42yo (Tasting)

Located right next to where I live, the Weinquelle Lühmann shop in Hamburg is my favorite liquor store of all. It is there that I bought my first bottle of single malt Scotch whisky about four years ago (which was Jura’s wonderful Diurach’s Own, if I remember correctly). (more…)

Ardbeg Whisky Tasting by Hansemalt feat. Herr Lutz (Tasting)

Harsh, headstrong and heavily peated, Ardbeg is the quintessential Islay malt for many drammers. While I love all of the eight operating distilleries on the Queen of the Hebrides dearly, I would not argue with anyone who called the reinvigorated production site (more…)

Whisky Week 2018 at Alsterhaus in Hamburg (Event)

Three’s a crowd, five’s a handful and eight’s a festival. Although the Whisky Week at Alsterhaus – one of Hamburg’s most uptown shopping malls – was not officially announced as a whisky fair, it certainly felt like one. (more…)

Ardbeg Grooves (Review)

Every year, the Islay Festival of Whisky & Music finds its big finale in rollicking festivities on the premises of the easternmost of the so-called Kildalton distilleries on the island’s south shore. But it’s not only there that Ardbeggians go crazy on that day. (more…)

4 Whiskies from North Star’s new Series 004 (Review Flight)

Although they have only been up to their tricks for one-and-a-half years, Glasgow’s North Star Spirits have made quite an impact in the whisky world with their well-chosen single cask bottlings and other limited editions. Quite recently they launched their fourth series of whiskies (more…)

The SMWS “All Things Peaty” Tasting by Hansemalt (Event)

For several months, I was struggling with myself wether I should become a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society or not. Throughout this time I tried several bottlings of theirs and not once was I disappointed. In addition, my wife also enjoyed almost every SMWS dram (more…)

Ardbeg: “How An Oa is a whole new type of Ardbeg” (Interview)

While Ardbeg’s new permanent expression An Oa has already been available for purchase in the UK for a few weeks, it officially launched in the rest of Europe today. We took the opportunity to reach out to the distillery’s Head of Maturing Whisky Stocks, Brendan McCarron (more…)

Ardeg An Oa Tasting and BBQ at Spirituosen Wolf (Event)

With An Oa, which is named after the rounded peninsula in the Southwest of Islay that shields the Kildalton distilleries from the roaring waves and raging winds of the Atlantic ocean, Ardbeg has recently added the first new bottling to its core range in almost 10 years! (more…)

An Oa: Ardbeg adds new Whisky to its Core Range in September (News)

Ardbeg An Ao (Islay Peated Scotch Single Malt Whisky Distillery Core Range)

As we just read on the pages of one of our favorite whisky bloggers The Whisky Lady, Hebridean peat masters Ardbeg will release their eagerly awaited An Oa expression in the UK next month. Meant to be a permanent addition to Ardbeg’s core range (more…)

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