Ardmore 10 Year Old 2010 Cask #803499 (Blackadder)

A 10 year old single cask Ardmore released by Blackadder in 2020 under the Raw Cask range, distilled in 2010 and bottled at 60.6% natural strength. Blackadder operates from Sweden with Raw Cask as their signature range bottled without filtration and including cask sediment for unfiltered delivery. Cask #803499 sits as the first bottled cask in a 2010 Blackadder Raw Cask cluster running across #802995 and #803497 in subsequent years, all from consecutive cask numbers acquired through a common broker channel. 206 bottles for the Dutch market. The 2010 vintage falls in the early Beam Global ownership period at Kennethmont with steam heating on the wash stills since 2001.

Filled at 63.5% into a single ex Bourbon refill American oak cask in 2010, the spirit matured at Kennethmont under the post 2001 steam heating regime. Ten years brought the strength to 60.6%, indicating dry warehouse conditions across the period.

Raw Cask format delivers concentrated distillery character with cask sediment intact. Cis whisky lactone reads as coconut and pine, vanillin from oak lignin shows as light custard. Steam era distillate sits prominently at the centre with apple and pear esters from the Kerry yeast component. The 12 to 14 ppm peat phenols read as heather smoke, dry leaf and earthy phenolic at moderate integrated intensity. Honeyed barley closes a warm long finish at full strength.