A quarter century after being saved from closure, Islay-based Scotch distillery Ardbeg is celebrating its second life with a quirky bottle unlike anything single malt lovers have seen from them ...

Whiskey here tends to plateau at a certain point ... more and are generally smoother and more rewarding for that expense. Ardbeg, a distiller of more than 200 years on Islay's southeastern ...

Nose: a mild sooty note in the background, along with herbal tea, raw wool and a hint of inner tubes. Whiffs of engine grease ...

Included in the tasting lineup for the evening was the heavily peated Ardbeg An Oa, and it was quite a few hands raised when we asked who had this whisky as their favourite of the evening.

Ardbeg Travel Retail has released its floral and smoky third release, Ardbeg Smoketrails Napa Valley Edition, that was exclusively from January 2025 in ...