Code
Distillery
Ardmore
Name
Blackbeard's Treasure
Producer
SMWS
Region
Highland
Age
11 years
ABV
62.3%
Bottler Type
Independent
Category
Scotch
Flavor Profile
Peated
The whisky presents a complex bouquet of engine oil, putty, and vanilla fudge, with subtle notes reminiscent of rum-soaked textiles and chamois cloth.
It delivers a distinctive combination of sugar-coated fennel seeds, jellied liquorice, banana fritters, and brown sugar, balanced by sweet smoke, tar, and ash with hints of tropical fruit.
The finish is clean and approachable, with lingering notes of cough sweets and gentle smoke that gradually fade.
Oooh-aaargh – Captain Blackbeard’s cheroot-slavered, rum-soaked whiskers shook as canons fired from the ship’s deck – quick, fetch the apothecary! Battle over – time for barbecued prawns on the beach. The palate gave us sugar-coated fennel seeds, jellied liquorice, banana fritters, cough sweets and "drinking piña colada from a farmer’s welly boot" – only distant memories of gunpowder. The reduced nose had engine oil, putty, vanilla fudge and "wiping up spilled rum with a chamois cloth". The eminently quaffable palate now combined garibaldis and brown sugar with sweet smoke, tar and ash. After eight years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a refill Trinidad rum barrel.