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EXPERIMENTAL SINGLE MALT COILS DESIGNER CASKS’ SWEETNESS AROUND ARDBEG’S HALLMARK HERBAL TONES
< Aged 15 years, Ardbeg The Beithir’s Story is the finale to Distillery’s Anthology collection of legendary malts >
Ardbeg Islay single malt whisky as we speak unveils an fragrant and creamy 15-year-old restricted version – the finale to its Anthology collection of uncommon and unusual single malts. Named after a mythological, serpent-like beast, Ardbeg Anthology: The Beithir’s Story is the Distillery’s first whisky matured in designer bourbon casks. Crafted to Ardbeg’s explicit specs, these casks wind full-bellied flavours of smoked butter and vanilla around the whisky’s basic notes of menthol and pine.
Ardbeg Anthology is a trilogy of bizarre single malts which cross basic Ardbeg with experimental inventory to create sweeter, extra delicate tones. Capturing the “hybrid” characters of those whiskies, every malt’s identify and packaging are impressed by a distinct mythological creature stated to have been glimpsed on Islay. The bad-tempered beithir might (or might not), have as soon as slithered by means of an Ardbeg warehouse.
Years in the past, the Distillery’s whisky creators laid down a parcel of Ardbeg in designer bourbon casks, desirous to discover their results on its smoky, balanced spirit for the primary time. Air-seasoned – relatively than kiln-dried – then closely toasted and calmly charred precisely as they requested, these bespoke casks promised to convey fuller, creamier flavours to Ardbeg. Matured for 15 years, the experiment has reached a candy and fragrant peak. The Beithir’s Story overflows with these buttery notes, balanced by Ardbeg’s hallmark smoky tones and sharp tangs of eucalyptus and pine.
The Beithir’s Story completes the Anthology collection, becoming a member of The Harpy’s Story – a 13-year-old marriage of basic Ardbeg with the Distillery’s first whisky matured in Sauternes candy white wine casks – and The Unicorn’s Story, aged 14 years, which unites bourbon-matured Ardbeg with whisky wholly aged in Madeira wine casks.
Grasp Blender Gillian Macdonald stated: “We’re all the time pushing the boundaries of Ardbeg to find much more flavour mixtures. The candy and smoky ‘hybrids’ of Ardbeg Anthology are as experimental as they arrive.
“Created from whisky matured in our designer casks, The Beithir’s Story is the fragrant and candy finale of our Anthology collection. Named after a mythological, serpentine beast, this 15-year-old whisky invitations notes of vanilla and smoked butter to slip by means of Ardbeg’s basic fragrant flavours of peat smoke, fennel, eucalyptus and pine. Fairly just like the beithir, it’s easy and mysterious… with a smoky, menthol chew!”
Ardbeg Anthology: The Beithir’s Story has been recognised with the Spirit Gold Excellent 2025 award (98 factors) at this 12 months’s Worldwide Wine & Spirits Competitors and a gold medal on the Worldwide Spirits Problem.
Priced at £135 with an ABV of 46%, Ardbeg Anthology: The Beithir’s Story shall be out there for buy on ardbeg.com, in Ardbeg Embassies, on the Distillery Customer Centre on Islay and in chosen whisky specialists.
RRP £135
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Tasting notes
ABV 46%
Color Pale Straw
Aroma Pungent, oily and spicy. Wealthy notes of treacle wrap round creosote and smoked herbs. Toasted apples and raisins reveal a sweeter underbelly. With water, eucalyptus and menthol burst forth as fennel and pine path behind.
Style Astoundingly balanced. A scorching mouthfeel leads into peat smoke, espresso grounds and currants. Candy lemon balm entwines with smoked mandarins, adopted by a pointy, smoky tang.
End Lengthy and meandering, with refined hints of vanilla and smoked butter.
Ardbeg:
Ardbeg prides itself on being The Final Islay Malt Whisky. Established in 1815, Ardbeg is revered by connoisseurs all over the world because the peatiest, smokiest and most complicated of all of the Islay malts. Regardless of its smokiness, Ardbeg is famend for its scrumptious sweetness, a phenomenon that has affectionately turn out to be generally known as ‘the peaty paradox’. In the course of the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, Ardbeg suffered from an unsure future, and it was not till the model was bought by The Glenmorangie Firm in 1997 that the Distillery was saved from extinction. Since then, the Distillery has risen like a phoenix and as we speak Ardbeg is well-established as a distinct segment, cult malt, with a passionate following. Right now, Ardbeg is without doubt one of the world’s most extremely awarded smoky single malt whiskies.
Ardbeg Committee:
The legacy of the whisky was safeguarded in 2000 by the formation of the Ardbeg Committee. The Committee is made up of hundreds of Ardbeg followers worldwide who’re eager to make sure that “the doorways of Ardbeg by no means shut once more”. Right now there are greater than 200,000 members of the Ardbeg Committee in over 140 nations. Committee Members are recurrently consulted on new bottlings and expressions and are provided unique Committee bottlings. Members additionally obtain invites to particular gatherings, tastings and occasions. The Committee is free to hitch at Ardbeg.com.
Awards:
Ardbeg is without doubt one of the world’s most extremely awarded smoky single malt whiskies. Since 2008, Ardbeg has received greater than 50 gold and double gold medals in key whisky competitions. Ardbeg has twice been awarded ‘World’s Finest Single Malt’ on the World Whiskies Awards (2010, 2013). On the 2014 International Icons of Whisky Awards, then Distillery Supervisor Mickey Heads was voted ‘Distillery Supervisor of the Yr’. The next 12 months, Ardbeg’s expressions took the highest three spots in Whisky Advocate journal’s overview of the perfect single malt Scotch whiskies underneath US$100. In the meantime, each Ardbeg Corryvreckan and Ardbeg Uigeadail have been awarded gold medals on the 2016 San Francisco World Spirits Competitors. Ardbeg Ten Years Outdated additionally received the Finest Single Malt Scotch 10 Yr Outdated on the Worldwide Whisky Competitors 2019, whereas the Ardbeg Distillery received the Distillery of the Yr 2019. In 2020, the Worldwide Whisky Competitors awarded Ardbeg Corryvreckan first place for Finest Single Malt Scotch, Finest Single Malt Scotch (No Age Assertion), Finest cask Power (Over 57% ABV), Finest Peated Scotch and Finest Islay Single Malt. Ardbeg Wee Beastie additionally earned first place for Finest Single Malt Scotch Below 10 Yr Outdated and The Ardbeg Distillery achieved one other Distillery of the Yr award. In 2021, Dr Invoice Lumsden was awarded Grasp Distiller of the Yr for the fifth time, and Ardbeg Uigeadail received World Whisky of the Yr within the Worldwide Whisky Competitors. In 2022, on the Worldwide Whisky Competitors, Ardbeg was awarded The Distillery of the Yr Award, whereas Ardbeg Ardcore received first place in Finest New Scotch Launch, Finest Peated Single Malt and Finest Islay Single Malt. In 2023, Ardbeg was awarded 4 Gold and eight Silver medals on the Worldwide Spirits Competitors, Silver within the Worldwide Wine & Spirits Competitors and Double Gold on the San Francisco World Spirits Competitors. Ardbeg 25 Years Outdated was named the World’s Finest Scotch Whisky on the 2023 New York Wine Spirits Competitors, and acquired a Platinum medal on the 2024 San Francisco World Spirits Competitors. In 2025, Ardbeg 17 Years Outdated was awarded Finest Scotch Islay Single Malt on the World Whiskies Awards, and the distillery was additionally recognised with the Class Winner awards for Ardbeg 25 Years Outdated and Ardbeg Corryvreckan. On the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competitors, Ardbeg Ten and Ardbeg 25 Years Outdated have been recognised with Double Gold awards. On the 2025 Worldwide Spirits Competitors, Ardbeg Seann Chreag 21 Years Outdated and Ardbeg Vintage_Y2K have been each awarded Double Gold.
Ardbeg’s Anthology collection: This experimental assortment contains three uncommon and experimental Ardbegs, every created from intriguing cask mixtures totally new to the Distillery. Every whisky within the collection takes its identify from a distinct mythological creature.
The Harpy’s Story: The collection’ first single malt was launched in August 2023. Aged for 13 years in a mix of basic bourbon and candy Sauternes wine casks, this distinctive Ardbeg is characterised by a tussle between highly effective smoke and wealthy sweetness.
The Unicorn’s Story: The second whisky within the assortment combines basic Ardbeg aged in bourbon casks with whisky totally matured in Malmsey Madeira casks – the sweetest and most prized of the Madeira wines.
The Beithir’s Story: The Anthology’s third and last launch is Ardbeg’s first single malt to be matured in designer bourbon casks. These bespoke casks assist to create the 5-year-old whisky’s fuller, creamier flavours.
Ardbeg’s designer casks
These casks are created bespoke to Ardbeg’s specs from slow-growth American oak. That wooden is rigorously chosen for its excessive concentrations of naturally occurring compounds which convey creamier textures to the whisky. The oak is air-seasoned – a method which breaks down its inner construction to launch softer, sweeter flavours than faster, kiln drying achieves. Its casks are then calmly toasted and closely charred to Ardbeg’s exact specs, earlier than being full of bourbon for at the least 4 years, for seasoning. Interacting with Ardbeg’s spirit over time, these designer casks convey a sweeter, creamier profile to the whisky.
The Glenmorangie Firm:
The Firm is without doubt one of the most famous and progressive distillers and entrepreneurs of Scotch whisky manufacturers worldwide and is a part of Moët Hennessy, the wine and spirits division of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Firm produces Glenmorangie Single Highland Malt whisky and Ardbeg Single Islay Malt.
Accountable Ingesting:
Ardbeg and The Glenmorangie Firm advocate accountable ingesting and counsel that drinkers savour Ardbeg whiskies sparsely and in keeping with really useful day by day pointers for alcohol consumption.
