Ardbeg Supernova 2019

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You must be an Ardbeg Committee Member to purchase. - Limit 1 per customer subject to availability!

Please note we already have more requests than expected bottles, and we will be holding a lottery. If you have already placed an order please stop emailing/calling the store to inquire if it is here. We will reach out to everyone, regardless of whether we can get you a bottle, when they are here! 

This is the first release of Supernova since 2015, and possibly the last... so much mystery! Matured in American oak this NAS Ardbeg has been bottled at 53.8%. It is exclusive to Ardbeg Committee Members, and will be limited to either 1-2 bottles per Committee Member, depending on supply.

Producer Description

"It’s back, and it’s on a mission to take your taste buds to peaty parts unknown… This year’s limited edition bottling, Ardbeg Supernova 2019, will change your sensory perceptions of what whisky can be. A heavily peated Ardbeg of stellar proportions, this dram is an abduction of the senses. Enter into realms of sweet treacle toffee, navigate thick clouds of aniseed, menthol and soot, before finally re-emerging through a dense nebular of peat and smoke. Whisky will never be the same again. Ardbeg Supernova 2019 – the sensory abduction nobody saw coming…"

Producer Tasting Note

Nose: Clouds of pungent aniseed, menthol and eucalyptus are underscored with sweet notes of treacle toffee. Hints of peppermint, a frisson of fennel, and a mysterious camphorous scent in the far distance… With water, more toffee notes emerge with a burst of dry, earthy peat.

Palate: A tingly, peppery mouthfeel leads to a veritable explosion of intense, earthy, smoky notes – a nebular of bonfires, soot, charred oak, birch tar and menthol.

Finish: Unbelievably long, with layers of treacle toffee, aniseed, oak tannin, clove and just a hint of bittersweet, tangy Seville orange on the aftertaste.

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