Whisky Review/Tasting: Ardbeg TEN 10 years
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Nosing 4:45
Whisky.com tastes the Ardbeg TEN 10 years. The Ardbeg TEN is a heavily peated single Malt from the isle of Islay.
Nose:
Strong peat smoke, dried fruits, alcohol
Taste:
Light sweet, spicy, maltiness
Finish:
Medium, sweet
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You taught me so much about the great world of whisky tasting!
Ardbeg 10 has rapidly become one of my favorite Whiskey 🥃
Peat yes
Smoke yes yes
Slight sweetness on the finish... definitely.
A solid Scotch whisk(e)y.
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My routine is to pour myself a dram and do the tasting on my own. Then I have another with Herr Luening and compare "notes." It's like drinking with a friend, if my friends drank anything other than Pendleton and Jack Daniels. This Ardbeg 10 is incredible.
Horst, an excellent review as usual. But I want to say this: CONGRATS on your superb English! You should be very proud of your command of the English language. I only wish I could speak multiple languages well! I just purchased this whisky tonight based on your review. It is indeed extremely flavorful!
munkeepilot what a GREAt comment!
yeah, his English vocabulary is more sophisticated than most English speakers.
I absolutely love Ardbeg 10. Total steal when so many other whiskys are overpriced. The flavors are so intense, it's incredible.
wkruit1 Whats your view on Lagavulin 16?
I was also wondering what others think of Lagavulin compared to Ardbeg10, my usual budget for a bottle is £25 and if i'm gonna splash out maybe xmas time over £40 it would be useful to now which is the best value
This is definitely my winter favorite!
@@ONEMANUNITX Lagavulin 16 is still my favourite whisky ! Then Ardbeg.
Another phenomenal review from this legend. One of my favourite drams, glad to see you enjoy it just as much.
I bought my first bottle of Ardbeg 10 today. The cheapest I could find was €52 in Ireland. I have seen it for sale for a lot more than that and it is not overly available either. I really like it. Peaty, complex fruity notes. Really oily and intense in the mouth. Aftertaste is long, sweet and pleasant. A fantastic single malt.
To me, this Ardbeg 10 years gains a lot with a splash of water. I like it neat but much better with a few drops.
You are an absolute legend. Love your videos, very informative, professional and soothing. Keep it up👍
Holy shit what a FLAVOR BOMB of a single malt scotch...... My palate; Sweet, smoke, dry, sour, sweet smoke again and too damn smooth for a 46 ABV whisky-----YOWZA!!!! As always, GREAT REVIEWS you do Mr Horst Leuning.... Your knowledge of this stuff is so good to hear about....
Fantastic video...I just purchased my first bottle of Ardbeg 10 and in all honesty, I was beginning to have a little "buyers remorse". This is my first bottle of peated whisky and I genuinely thought it was going to be my last. I couldn't get past the overpowering "mediciney" note from the peat. You helped uncover those hidden sweet notes and it is quickly growing on me. Thank you Horst!
Love this about whisky. How all it takes is a bit of different perspective to unlock those aromas you couldn't detect before.
I don’t know I felt like Laphroaig 10s “medicine” smell is stronger than Ardbeg 10s…. Just me tho
We just got some Ardbeg 10. Very pleased. We don't know much about whiskey, nor drink much, but the strength of your reviews made this something we wanted to try out. Thank you!!
Very nice to have you here. One thing: Whiskey is Irish and Bourbon. Whisky is international and Scotch. Do you want to know the differences?
www.whisky.com/information/knowledge/production/overview.html
Whenever I buy a whisky, I ALWAYS open your video review while I'm tasting it!... It just turns out that I've been watching this particular Ardbeg video the most!
I love when Horst gets a taste of a peat monster lol his reaction is priceless
Thanks for the review Horst.
Great presentation, deep and "profi" description!
I love your reviews. I was cracking up listening to you after the tasting. It definitely is how i feel when I drink my Ardbeg. Makes your mouth water. I felt like your mouth watering noises were louder than your voice. Another great review!
Thank you. After watching this, figured out this profile is what I tasted in blended scotch. Bought a bottle and love it.
Older review but stands as strong as ever! Excell'ante! Love the tip on coming back in the morning...Well done.
Thank you Horst.
I have a glass of Ardbeg 10 and a Laphroaig Quarter side by side doing comparison now.
You helped me discover the sweetness within Ardbeg.
one of my favorites, beautiful whiskey
Still new to scotch whisky but I this has been my favorite ever since I first tasted it. It was given to me at a gathering and I took it like a shot because I didn't know anything. I was corrected and it opened my eyes to how good scotch can taste.
Love this channel. Bravo.
I love Horst's review of the Ardbeg 10. He's obviously fond of it and so am I. It's an absolute classic and does everything right. It has a minimum age of 10 years, it's bottled at a healthy 46%, it's not chill filtered and probably not coloured. It's perfectly structured and has a fine mouth feel. And you can still find it for under £40. Springbank 10 is great value too.
Great review as always. Thank you for sharing your thoughts Horst Lüning !
I really love this one !
Great review...Just picked up the 10, and it was a pleasant surprise compared to the Corryvrekan which I had a bad experience with and perhaps a bad batch. I got a lot of the peat smoke notes, maybe some leather. Excellent review and cheers!
The best whisky channel by far.
I just love your videos. Keep up the good work
Ardbeg 10 is still so wonderful (despite the heavy marketing)!
No, thank you- for such a fine review of splendid sounding drink. I am now picking up a bottle for myself
My timeline - every time I get myself a great new whiskey to taste, I pour myself a glass and only then try to look for a video review you made :) This way I can really taste exactly what you're describing ;)
Picked up a few bottles over here in SA at the equivalent of 37Eur. Marvelous stuff.
Awesome review - ardbeg 10 on a stormy cold night and laphroaig 10 the next night, that’s all I need
We agree the empty glass in the morning has a wonderful aroma! Have you tried adding a drop of water to this 10 year old? We found it acts contrary to many whiskies in that it increases the 'Spice' that you mention.
Ardbeg for me is the greatest 10 year old whisky on the planet...such a good whisky
+TheJusnic82 It certainly sets the standard as far as entry level Islay's are concerned
A must have on everyones "collection". So much flavor considering its only a 10yo.
Ssshhhh! You can't shout secrets.
talisker 10?
Talisker 10 is good, but Ardbeg is better. Although, I just polished off a Bowmore 12 the other day and that was ridiculously flavoursome and complex. Tough decisions on the next purchase.
A little water helps bring out the sweetness even more..I let my dram of Ardbeg sit and breath for 10-15 min then add a teaspoon of cool distilled water, swirl lightly and wait another minute or so, then start enjoying it....delicious and wonderful. A very different experience then fresh out of the bottle neat
I love Ardbeg, just bought the TEN
next purchase: AN OA ......fantastic taste experience as well
just opened a bottle today...peaty as hell but so good afterwards...
Ardbeg 10 and Talisker 10 are, for me, the greatest entry-level premium scotches ever.
I think you can get a lagavulin 16 too in roughly the same price range ... but yeah - I actually prefer the Ardbeg too
@@whynottalklikeapirat Lag 16 costs 50% more than Ardbeg 10 and Laphoraoig 10 where I am.
@@daddybuttt BUmmer. It's more expensive where I am at but not a lot. Depends on the deal. Probably around what would correspond to 10-15 dollars more. A bad ardbeg deal corresponds roughly to a good lagavulin deal ... but sure the Lagavulin probably IS closer to the next tier from the outset, they're just often compared for price/value ...
Add the laphroaig 10 and we are good!
Sergio damn man I loved the Laphroaig 10
It's so true about the Ardbeg sweetness of this whisky.
Elegant, Classy, a real gentleman. I've got a few bottles of speyburn single malt, and intend to get Laphroig 10 years and one Ardbeg for the cold season:) (Never understood why people mix whisky with crap like coca cola) just crossed my mind
laphroaig 10 is one of my favourites, so im very curious if the Ardbeg 10 can compete to that. Great review, very helpfull!
You've become some sort of david attenborough in the world of whisky!
Daddy Jay Jay I’ve never compared the two side by side, but I feel like laphroaig is more oily and ardbeg is more peaty. I love them both in equal measure, but both have something different to offer.
For me ardbeg is oily with an unripe sour pear flavour with a strong alcohol burn and a slight peaty aftertaste, laphroaig is much more medicinal and briney but a bit watery compared to the ardbeg but I still prefer laphroaig to ardbeg
Very much prefer Ardbeg 10 over Laphroaig 10....and over Talisker 10 as well. Peat, strength, but a sweet smoothness to it as well which is lacking in the Laphroaig and Talisker. Plus non-colored or chill filtered. Truly a great whisky for the $$....my favorite 10 yr. Now a Talisker 18 is beyond comparison.....in my top 5!
damn.. taste sense is so subjective.
to me the Ardbeg10 is straight peat, no oily things, no sweet end-flavours, just straight peat and smoky, with probably some dark chocolate/coffee dry note in the end.
But man, the Laphroaig10 yes, was peat, but also a lot of other things, was more complex and it literally evolves in the mouth, I like this type of things in whiskeys
If your a big whiskey fan, or if your exploring do a side by side. Great experience. But yes...yes it can.
I swear you have the mic in your mouth. Great review.
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I'm honestly starting to question if he has the mic in his throat somewhere.
I rarely leave comments but came down expressly to make this point. It’s in there, man. He must’ve had a tooth replaced with an implantable waterproof mic. Only explanation.
Russ Headlee
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Great review! Keep up the good work
Thank you.
Horst you are the best. that kind of glass is better than glencairn for the ardbeg ten also i did the mouth washing thing and was surprisingly good, in this whisky, thank you.
Ardbeg is really an individual experience. You either dislike it or love it, it's a jealous lover that demands absolute loyalty or none at all. Personally, I have a sweet spot for the girl...
Your review made me go pour another glass of my scotch just some glenlivet 12 I’ve been wanting to try this bottle for a long time I’m going to have to try it
just cracked open my first for the year. Been doing talisker, lagavulin recently. So pleasantly surprised. Like the warmth of fire coming in from the freezing outside. You know youve experienced it before, but it feels special all the same.
I want to blend Tali 10 and Arbeg 10 and taste the results. Both of these are my daily, more the Tali because of that "chilli bite".
But this Arbeg 10 is really making me happy right now ;-) So good
Just got a taste at my local whisky store... he thought it would be to much for me since i'm quite new to whisky but i actually liked it ^^
Bought it due to this review. Didn’t like it in the first two tastes due to the intensity. Now I really like it after half bottle.
Yes, I agreed. Lagavulin is more intense. This ardberd is lighter and somewhat taste same to Laphroaig 10ys. Sorry for my naive comment, but at the time I watch your video I was enjoying it. I'm a little fan of Islay scotch.
Depends. Lots of people compare Ardbeg 10 with Laga 8. I find the Laga 8 lacking in complexity and aromas compared to Ardbeg 10. Feels very one dimensional and "alcoholic", while Ardbeg 10 is really smoky, salty, fruity and bitter, one after the other.
Just ordered and opened my first Ardbeg 10. Peaty with a hint of leather. Like walking into a store selling fine leather goods.
Ive woke up to an emp\y glass of ardbeg many a times and the glass smells so sweet and fruity...
Ardbeg is some amazing stuff it tastes the same time after time and its a bottle you can trust that is going to be excellent everytime
Lately ive noticed a lot of other whiskys have diminished in quality
even tho it's been 10 yrs., wonderful review.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sweetness in the back- priceless..👌
After the smoke do you catch the pungent rhubarb aroma? Never had that in a whiskey before.
Ardbeg 10 is a really nice whisky. Intense and smokey.
My favorite.
I am sure the swirling and swishing sounds are added in for extra effort and are not actually recorded with the video.
Delicious!😋
last year (yesterday) I open a bottle of Ardbeg TEN 10 years, and I notice that some smoke came out: Is that normal for Ardbeg?
No caramel colour, Ardbeg 10 ladies and gentleman.
Everybody is playing the colour game, even Ardbeg. The green bottle indicates that they find the colour to be a negative but the "not coloured" label to be a positive. And it's so irrelevant. I've heard it argued that you can use colour to infer the flavour of sherried whiskys, but even then distillers use a short and stout bottle so that you are looking through a greater volume of liquid - making it appear deeper/darker. I wouldn't even use colour to discern sherry itself. Maybe rose'.
@@AnimeReference ardbegs colored glass make my half-empty bottle look nice on my shelf, while the transparendt bottles just look ugly when opened. for me, its a small but clever thing
Ardbeg, not a trace of artificial E150 colouring, unlike Laphroaig, Lagavulin or Bowmore. There's a few others on Islay with high standards as well.
I always get a strong gulp of apple cider vinegar with this whisky.
Another pheon(omen)ol review
My review: Aroma: Grandpa's ashtray
Palate : Rain boots
i need to make a gift and i have to choose between ardbeg and woodford reserve distilled / double oaked. i know that there's no similarity between them, but which one should i pick? please help!
Ardbeg dear...
@@atzenanu thank you!!!
I get parsley taste
5:36 I almost fell off my chair laughing -with that play by play of how NOT to enjoy this nectar....
I notice in this video you use a glass which I'll describe as a skinny pear shape, while in another video (i.e. the Old Ballantruan) you used a fluted glass. Is there a reason?
+Joe Commonsense older video
+Whisky.com Ha! OK, thanks.
Heil Luening! :DD i like your reviews sir have good health!.
Ardbeg 10 prices have increased about 35% over the last few years, but it still is a really nice buy. I love the peatiness and the smoke.
Enjoy Brexit
@@ihmpall :( I am in India and I can't even buy an Ardbeg straight off the shelf in my locality. Had to settle down with cheaper scotch whiskeys.
Your advice please - I love LAPHROAIG 10 - Would you consider this to be stronger in the Smoke "arena"? - I was sent a bottle of SMOKEHEAD Whiskey also from Islay and couldn't stand it - to me it was too much smoke - I am hoping Ardberg will be more in line with Laphroaig 10 : )
The Laphroaig 10 smoke is more dominant than the Ardbeg 10 smoke. So if you are good with the Laphroaig you should not have any problems with the Ardbeg. Also you can still add some water due to the 46 % vol.
@@realbad4141 Many Thanks! - I chose the Laphroig 10, and a currently sipping away at it : ) Delicious! Now I have to try the Ardbeg 10 : )
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You like peat then Ardbeg is the dram for you. Up till 2014 I would have said that Lagavulin 16 was the daddy of whiskies. But Diageo took over the distillery in 1997 and when the first batches came through in 2013 the taste had changed. The peat and complexity have taken a severe hit and the quality has suffered. If only Diageo spent as much time and effort on their whiskies as they do on marketing them (I'm looking at you Ron Swanson), the difference wouldn't have been half as bad.
No, Ardbeg is now the best peaty Islay in the £50 price point market. Lovely smoke, no E150 colouring or chill filtering......how whisky should be! Horst should do a new Lagavulin 16 review and compare the newer bottlings to the pre-2013's. the difference in quality is startling.
What an exceptional review. Please move the microphone slightly further away from your mouth.
I will keep this bottle just bcuz it was a gift @$55.. Not the biggest fan bcuz it tastes and smells like it was inolved in a big house fire. Completely over bearing..all the expectations of those caramel and vanilla flavors are not there. Very hard to enjoy. I do enjoy your reviews though .
Thanks
pc 10 vs ardbeg 10
not that good i think caol ila 12 is better and is less expensive too.
Reminds me of a educated Jim Lahey.
It's like a camp fire that has been slowly extinguish by seafoam.
Keine vort verstanden
i don't get all the hype about the ardbeg. at first it is too smoky afterwards it is too sweet. it kinda tastes like licorice a flavour very many people usually dislike. i prefer a caol ila over an ardbeg any day of the week.
I think it depends a lot on the batch. I've had older Ardbeg 10's that were incredible, some were really just average.
As a huge lover of licorice/lakrids, this is perhaps why I like the Ardbeg 10 so much.
I couldn't focus on the review because of your slurp sorry
This guy reminds me of a vampire tasting different blood types 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
BURBUMM CASKS
I deeply regret buying that bottle. I just can't drink it. Too smoky, too bitter. What a disappointment
I'm sure you've either discarded your bottle or let friends drink it, but try it with a drop or 2 of water. It'll bring out more flavors and cut the smokiness some.
Ive had a bottle of this one before. Personally, I prefer Laphroaig 10 .
you're gonna make me into an alcoholic
I have this and I absolutely hate it. I wanted to like it but I guess I just can't do the smokey taste. Not for me.
If this is the same one I have at home, it is extremely smokey. It's so smokey that other people can smell it in the room while you have it in your glass. I personally dont enjoy drinking this one. Too much going on for me.
No way as smokey as the other Islay whiskys
mcscootie Oh yea, I remember buying a bottle, I don’t remember the brand, it smelled like distilled seagull fecal matter, with the added fraquence of rotting seaweed. Quite the stinker, tasted good tough.
the stuff tastes pretty good and smokey but the smell is awful, a chemical, oily, watercolor paint smell
That swishing sound when he takes a sip, drives me insane. Just swallow kt
If you swallow it immediately you can't taste anything
Love your videos, but your mouth noises are maddening
I really like your reviews but the mouth noises put me off as much as the content of your review informs me.
I have tasted dozens of single malts but this has to be one of the worst tasting/smelling whiskeys I have ever purchased. What a waste. It jus sits on my bar waiting for its next victim who dares to pass out from it’s nauseating fumes.
Plz tell me it's a troll
Possibly a bad batch as I've had Ardbeg's 10's that were very different over the years.
The nose on this whiskey is like getting punched in the face by a rotting corpse... near a camp fire.
There is no such thing as scotch aged in a “first fill bourbon cask”. If it is the first fill, it could not have had bourbon in it.
Worst swishing I’ve ever heard in a whiskey review. That’s just creepy man.
"The master taster".. What. A. Tosser
Very Nice feel free to take your kind comment and move on to another video 👍
Very Nice Yeah... That's a job title... He seems like a good guy. Not a tosser at all
It's his job you uncultured swine
Please show some respect for Horst. It's his work and his family own the largest whisky shop in Germany.
Please take your infantile remarks and moronic attitude elsewhere. Thank you.