Recension från Serge:
Ardbeg 'Rollercoaster' (57.3%, OB, Committee, vatting of ten vintages, 2010)
Sorry, no picture of this one yet, so we just put a random picture. The Rollercoaster is a vatting of several casks spanning the last ten years (including some sherry), so it may be a better representation of the current Ardbeg style than a bourbonised single cask or even an 'age-statement' version. Not too sure about the outturn, as a good friend of mine said:
'most are guessing low (2-3000) but I've been told 15,000 worldwide'. If that is true, that would suggest they have used more than just one cask from each vintage. It seems that it'll be available both from Ardbeg's website on February 15 and from several US retailers. Colour: straw. Nose: ha, this one starts as kippery as whisky can be! What's even more striking are the notes of cooked ham that aren't often to be found in Ardbeg, even young ones. Yet, it doesn't smell immature despite the slightly raw whiffs of mercurochrome and tincture of iodine. Very funny development on… wait, Absinth? Serious! Also embrocations, dill… Between a pharmacy and an herbalist's shop. Some pears, sign of youth. The peat isn't really big, maybe it'll come out louder with water. With water: changes a lot, now much more on metal polish, soot, linoleum, apple peelings and wet clothes and newspapers. Still no huge peat and no 'new rubber boots effect'. Mouth (neat): punchy and powerful, much, much peatier, smokier and rougher than the nose suggested. Not exactly 'Supernova-esque' but closer to that one than to, say the regular Tens. Something herbal and bitter, artichoke liqueur (I'm sorry), or Fernet-Branca… Stomach bitter? You have to like that – I do. With water: less bitter herbs and more 'sweet' ones, aniseed, cider apples, then quite some limejuice and more and more salt. And smoke, of course. Finish: long, salty and earthy, not that far from the old 10 at this point. Notes of gentian spirit as often in youngish Ardbegs (I think!) as well as a little eucalyptus/cough drops. Comments: nose and palate are quite different but what's sure is that it's a straight and genuine Ardbeg, especially on the palate. The younger parts (3 to 6yo) do not show off too much, which is probably great news, but it's obviously not an old Ardbeg. Great work, it must have been tricky to compose such a vatting. SGP:256 (nose) and 369 (palate) - 88 points.
Update:
a picture here (thank you, friend)
Update: according to the composition of the vatting, from 5.6% of 2006 to 9.5% of 1997, I've calculated that the average age of this baby (not the legal age) should be 7.81 years old. So not
that young...
) så vore det ju rätt och riktigt att göra en stor upplaga för att ge fler en möjlighet att lägga rabarber på en flaska, speciellt med tanke på ett jubileum som detta. 
