For whisky fans, a deep dive into the limited edition dubbed Heavy Vapours
Distiller Dr. Bill Lumsden is known for pushing the boundaries to create new whiskies for Ardbeg and Glenmorangie. During his tenure, a small amount of Ardbeg has orbited the planet on the International Space Station before touching back down to earth in Kazakhstan in September 2014. More recently, two casks of Ardbeg’s famously smoky Islay malt were buried in a peat bog for nearly three years before being dug up and released as its first single malt whisky NFT, Ardbeg Fon Fhòid, in 2022.
The inspiration for Heavy Vapours came from Lumsden’s inquisitive nature. “It’s an experiment — a ‘what if’ sort of thing,” says Lumsden. As a scientist and a distillery, he was driven to discover what gave Ardbeg its unique characteristics. It’s well-known as a heavily-peated whisky, but so are the expressions from neighbouring distilleries Lagavulin and Laphroaig in Port Ellen, which have different flavour profiles.
“We created some spirit which answered my question,” Lumsden explains. “And the answer is, yes, the purifier unquestionably adds a degree of finesse, and a degree of complexity to the characteristics of Ardbeg spirit. Without it, the spirit we created was quite brutal. You know, some people might say, Ardbeg is quite brutal anyway.”
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