Ardmore 11 Year Old 2013 Cask #TWC 0327 (The Whisky Chamber)

An 11 year old single cask Ardmore released by The Whisky Chamber in 2025, distilled in 2013 and bottled at 58.3% natural strength. The Whisky Chamber operates from Germany with focus on tightly selected single cask single malt releases at natural strength. The TWC prefix on cask numbering indicates the bottler's own warehouse system rather than distillery fill numbers. 154 bottles in 500ml format for the German market from cask #TWC 0327. The 2013 vintage falls in the early years of Suntory Holdings ownership of Ardmore via Beam Suntory, formed by the 2014 acquisition of Beam Inc by Suntory Holdings.

Filled at 63.5% into a single ex Bourbon refill American oak cask in 2013, the spirit matured at Kennethmont under the post 2001 steam heating regime. Eleven years brought the strength to 58.3%, with no chill filtration applied at bottling.

Refill Bourbon at this strength delivers distillery character with intensity. Cis whisky lactone reads as coconut and pine, vanillin from oak lignin shows as light custard, with syringaldehyde adding a faint clove edge. 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.