Ardbeg 2000-2010 - 10 Year Old - Single Cask 368

INFORMATION

Ardbeg 2000 - 2010. 10 Year Old. Cask number 368. One of 240 bottles Matured in First Fill Bourbon Casks. 70cl. 55.9%.

DISTILLERY:Ardbeg

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:55.9%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:240

BOTTLER:Douglas Laing

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:368

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Islay

DISTILLED YEAR:2000

BOTTLING DATE::2010

AGE:10

Founded in 1815, Ardbeg is one of Islay’s iconic distilleries. Ardbeg was purchased by Diageo forerunners DCL and Hiram Walker in 1973, with Walker taking full control in 1977, the year the distillery’s maltings were closed. Ardbeg was mothballed for most of the 1980s; production began again in 1989 under new owners Allied Lyons, but only for two months a year until 1996 when the distillery closed again. In 1997 the dilapidated Ardbeg distillery was bought by Glenmorangie plc (now part of LVMH) and its fortunes turned. Ardbeg was restored and relaunched, kickstarting the craze for heavily peated single malt whisky.

Ardbeg was seldom commercially available before the Allied/DCL takeover - the old white label official bottlings are now very rare. Allied bottled a handful of black label Ardbegs in the 1990s including the popular Ardbeg 30-year-old. The breakthrough bottlings were the Ardbeg 17-year-old and Ardbeg 1974 Provenance released by Glenmorangie in 1997 - these were soon followed by numerous magnificent single casks from 1970s vintages that cemented Ardbeg’s reputation. Independent Ardbeg is uncommon nowadays.