Colour: white wine – straw. Nose: sharp and almost ‘rigid’ at first nosing, very grassy, with lots of apple skin, newly cut grass, parafin and wet stones. Notes of fresh butter. Some peat but it’s a little shy I think, as if reduction with water sort of tamed it. Much less expressive than most other 1991’s I had, but those were usually bottled at cask strength, that is. Mouth: full bodied, fruity, peaty, peppery and salty. Really straightforward, without surprises - bad or good. Gets nicely resinous after a while. The whole is bolder than expected, considering the relatively low ABV (don’t tell my mum that I think that 45% is low, please). Finish: even more typically Ardbeg. The smokiness, the pepper, the saltiness… And all that jazz. Maybe an aftertaste that’s a little too sweetish, but it’s very good ‘of course’, even if it doesn’t really bring anything different to the table