Ardnamurchan 7 Year Old, Whisky Sponge Edition No.100

This is Whisky Sponge Edition No.100. It’s a 2016 and 2017, 7 year old Ardnamurchan small batch.

It’s a potion that Angus cooked up in collaboration with the good folk at Ardnamurchan Distillery. It’s a mix of 1st fill and 2nd fill, peated and unpeated sherry octaves. They mixed them all together and married them in a refill sherry butt for over six months until the whole potion turned 7 years old, then they bottled it with slight reduction at 57.1%. For those of you that deify transparency, here’s the recipe...

2017 – Unpeated 1st Fill Sherry

2017 – Peated 1st Fill sherry

2017 – Peated 1st Fill Sherry

2017 – Peated Refill Sherry

2016 – Unpeated Refill sherry

2016 – Unpeated Refill Sherry

2016 – Unpeated Refill Sherry

2016 – Unpeated 1st Fill Sherry

They wanted to celebrate and mark the final edition of Whisky Sponge with a whisky that was excellent quality, one that was collaborative and that we’d had a role in creating and making unique to them, and that was modern in the best sense and looked to the future. They feel they have succeeded in this – they hope you agree.

Now, please buy a bottle of this whisky, place it into your rucksack, put on a sturdy pair of brogues and walk to the far West Highlands of Scotland, whereupon you will spend the rest of your days communing with nature and enjoying erotic woodland rituals with whoever will agree to participate.