Ardbeg Vintage_Y2K 2000/2024 24 Year Old Amontillado Sherry Cask Finish (70cl, 47.8%)

Ardbeg Vintage_Y2K 2000/2024 is a 24-year-old Islay single malt, distilled in 2000 and bottled in 2024 at 47.8% ABV. It matured mainly in bourbon casks, with part of the batch finished in Amontillado sherry casks, the first time Ardbeg used that cask type for a finish. It is non-chill filtered and has no added colouring. The 2000 vintage comes from the historic still retired in 2001 after 51 years of operation. The nose is intense, aromatic and spicy, with creamy toffee, blackcurrant blossom and almonds alongside creosote, tar soap and old leather; with water, charcoal, graphite, damp moss and soot appear. The palate is powerful and spicy, with strong wood smoke and deep smoke, tar, antiseptic pastilles and campfire embers, while the Amontillado casks add finer notes of toffee, leather, cinnamon and clove. The finish is long and lingering, with menthol, eucalyptus, linseed oil and charcoal.