Ardbeg 25 Year Old Retailer:402 barrel-finished Whiskies

barrel-finished Whiskies

The first bottle of the new flagship brand “Makers Mark” was bottled in 1958 and dipped into the red sealing wax that has become the company’s trademark — making them one of the first to carve out a space in what we now call the “premium Bourbon” market

they turned to Gin in the meantime

exposing the barrels to changing temperatures to make one world-class complex Whiskey

And a young William Grant worked at the nearby Mortlach Distillery for more than twenty years

Ardbeg 25 Year Old Retailer:402 barrel-finished WhiskiesA brilliant example of what twenty five years in the wood does for premium Islay Single Malt. In an age of Whisky start ups, Ardbeg is refreshing blast from the past. They have been making Malt Whisky on the same site since 1798. The product was so popular that they ramped up production to commercial levels in 1815. Thats more than two hundred years of Single Malt wonder. Like nearly all of her Islay sisters, Ardbeg is a peated dram. But Ardbeg is