Ardmore
Gauntleys of Nottingham The 1880 Collection: The Officers Mess Bottling No4 Ardmore 2016 (8 years old) 60.4%
Bottled for Gauntleys of Nottingham by Brave New Spirits – sample at 61.5%
Bourbon, transferred to 1st fill Cognac Barrique on 22/05/22 (16 months)
Cask 22008001
Dist: 08/11/16 Btl: After 8/11/24
Tasted: Sept 2024
The nose is delicately smoky and crisp with crunchy apple and pear along with warm, baked apple and vanilla. The Cognac cask influence is noticeable but not overwhelming. With time hints of ginger spice and pepper. For a relatively young spirit it’s pleasantly rounded and complex.
The palate opens with oxidised/ baked apple, tar, peat and hints of citrus. It develops sweeter apple, and sweeter peat notes along with barley and vanilla on the middle. Masked but tarry, coffee’d and appley finish with lingering smoke, oily barley and tar.
With water the nose is still smoky but softer and more rounded. Delicately oily with a little mentholated note now. The palate is less smoky and spicy with a little more vanilla and crisp minerals, which linger through the finish. Overall, it displays a lovely balance of cask and distillery character. Sweet peat and tar after-taste.
DELIVERY
UK delivery
We aim to deliver to UK addresses normally within 3 working day using one of our preferred couriers.
Click and collect
You can buy online and collect from our Nottingham shop. Save on the delivery cost, pay online prices (which can sometimes be lower) and check your items are available before heading into town.
Delivery options
Your order can also be delivered to an alternative address such as a work address, just give us separate delivery and billing addresses at the checkout.
No hassle returns
Just call us on 0115 911 0555 within 30 days to arrange
Delivery outside the UK
For all delivery destinations outside of the UK - although your order is not subject to UK VAT it will be subject to the local taxes and duties of your country. These charges are usually levied once the package reaches your country. Any additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you; we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be. Customs policies vary widely from country to country, so you will need to contact your local customs office if you require further information.
To check if we can deliver to your country, and to see the delivery cost, please select your country in the basket page.
ASK US ANYTHING
Got any questions? We'd love to help. Call us at the shop on 0115 911 0555 or send us a message here
