Ardbeg 25 Years Old 2000 Cask #1100000016 (La Maison du Whisky)

A 25 year old Ardbeg from La Maison du Whisky in Paris, drawn from cask #1100000016 of the 2000 distillation cohort. The ten digit cask identifier sits outside the standard four or five digit warehouse cask number range used by Ardbeg, suggesting either an LMDW internal order or lot code applied at bottling, or a Glenmorangie distillery exclusive sequential numbering format reserved for premium tier releases.

Filled into refill American oak cask in 2000 during Glenmorangie's early revival years and matured for twenty five years across the LVMH ownership era. Bottled in 2025 at 55.4% ABV, unfiltered, uncoloured. The 2000 vintage represents Glenmorangie's third year of production after restarting the distillery, with the modern peat specification at 50 to 55 ppm established.

Twenty five years of refill American oak maturation builds developed oak expression. Cis and trans oak lactones (coconut, oiled wood) reach expressive concentration, hemicellulose breakdown furans (furfural, hydroxymethylfurfural) deliver caramel and toasted almond, and lignin vanillin and syringaldehyde layer vanilla and baking spice. The 2000 modern era peat phenols (guaiacol, syringol, 4 methylguaiacol, p cresol) have undergone moderate oxidative conversion across two and a half decades, shifting the smoke register toward leather, tarred rope and seasoned bonfire ash. The Ardbeg purifier ester signature delivers concentrated tropical fruit beneath the integrated phenolic core.