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Ardbeg Blaaack Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged In Pinot Noir Barrels

The Ardbeg Committee was formed in the year 2000 as a way to keep fans of the cultishly-revered distillery

01/06/2020

According to the forbes

It’s not all bad news these days. There remain some things worth getting excited over. Ardbeg Day is a sterling example. The annual celebration of one of Scotland’s most storied single malt producers is generally held on the final Saturday of Islay’s Festival of Music and Malt (otherwise known as Fèis Ìle). It culminates in the unveiling of a new single malt, which would have been today. And although the festival was cancelled due to coronavirus, ‘the show must go on,’ as they say. For the first time in its twenty year history, the Ardbeg Committee will curate the revelry in a virtual setting.

Beginning at 2pm EST, you can follow a live two-hour broadcast of tastings, games and entertainment—all coinciding with the main draw: the Ardbeg Blaaack release. This year’s special offering was matured in Pinot Noir casks from New Zealand. That viticultural backbone lends the liquid all sorts of ripe, red berry edges. Surrounding a core of Ardbeg’s trademark peat smoke, of course. In the finish is an extension of smoldering stone fruit. A suitably complex dram for a non-age-statement expression retailing at $120 a bottle.

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