Our Whisky
Our Whiskies
We have developed an award-winning range of single malt whiskies from spirit maturing in our warehouses. Not only do we use a traditional mix of American and European oak, ex-sherry casks and American oak ex-bourbon casks but we also enjoy having fun with other types of oak casks that have previously held anything from white wine to mezcal, sauternes to madeira.
Our core expression AD/ sits alongside a range of limited releases and single cask bottlings, all of which benefit from the overall flavour profile that you would expect from our remote spot on the wild Atlantic coastline: gentle peat smoke, rich oily honey and dark fruit palate, chilli pepper, sea salt and a little more smoke in the finish.
We believe that the rugged west coast air gives our whisky a certain element that cannot be replicated elsewhere.
All our whiskies are un-chill filtered and of natural colour.
AD/ 10 Years Old Release
Ardnamurchan distillery turned ten in the summer of 2024 and to celebrate this milestone we launched a unique batch of Ardnamurchan 10 Years Old whisky.
This 15,000 bottle batch was made up of 100% first-fill bourbon casks, where roughly half of the batch was subsequently finished, for over one year, in Champagne Paul Lanais barriques.
The spirit is 100% unpeated and bottled at 50% ABV.
Nose: The nose opens with an overtly tropical offering; replete with ripe mangoes, pineapple cubes, lots of honey. There are baked bananas, brown sugar, figs, and wine gums. With time, we go a little deeper into darker tones of crème caramel, toffee, and meringues with white chocolate.
Palate: Oh, hello there, waxiness! The theme of honey continues, backed up by linseed oil, warming spices, gingerbread, fresh pineapple, and cedar. Oily, waxy, showing great depth!
AD/ SINGLE CASK
Ardnamurchan operates differently than many distilleries when it comes to blending. Rather than having a “Master Blender”, we have a six-person blending team that decides collectively on every drop that we put into a bottle to send around the globe.
When the blending team noses a sample of a particularly characterful cask, we sometimes will pull the cask aside and designate it as worthy of a single cask bottling. We package dozens of these single cask bottlings every year, entirely matured in one cask and typically bottled at natural cask strength, thereby hearkening back to our Adelphi roots as a single-cask, cask-strength bottler.
Although every cask’s whisky will be unique, each will retain distinct traits of AD single malt whisky. The opaque slate blue bottle which denotes a single cask offers a subtle homage to the Ardnamurchan peninsula, emulating the similar colour of the volcanic rock surrounding the distillery.
We offer these special bottlings to countries, regions, supply chain partners, or whisky clubs that have proven themselves particularly committed to spreading the word of Ardnamurchan whisky through sales of our core range.
MACLEAN'S NOSE
Maclean’s Nose is our traditional blended scotch whisky, with some modern twists, and takes its name both from the Maclean’s Nose landmark on the Ardnamurchan peninsula and from the whisky legend Charles Maclean, who has acted as a guide and mentor to us over the years.
Maclean’s Nose has a high malt content of 70% and a significant presence of ex-sherry casks, which imparts a rich depth of flavour. Expect the delightful interplay of burnt citrus peel, invigorating sea salt, indulgent white chocolate and the smoky essence of a bonfire by the beach. As with our single malts, our Maclean’s Nose blended whisky is unchill filtered and of natural colour.
ABV: 46%
STOCKISTS
Our whiskies are stocked far and wide: You can find us in over 140 retailers throughout the UK, and over 40 export markets worldwide. There is also an ever-growing list of bars and restaurants where you can enjoy an Ardnamurchan dram.
And of course, our Visitor Centre stocks our full range plus some interesting rare treats…
We are using blockchain technology to store the production information about each and every bottle we make. Some of this information can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the back of your bottle of AD Whisky. You will learn everything about its provenance, from barley to bottle, full transparency.