Ardmore 15 Year Old 2009 Cask #705958 (casQueteers)

A 15 year old single cask Ardmore released by casQueteers in 2024, distilled in 2009 and bottled at 58.5% natural strength. casQueteers is a Netherlands based independent bottler with focus on tightly selected single cask single malt releases at natural strength. Cask #705958 sits in the high cask number range of Beam era distillery fill numbering, indicating a cask filled and tracked through the distillery's own system rather than a broker numbered parcel. The bottler also released sequential cask #705960 from the same parcel selection, suggesting consecutive casks bought together. 214 bottles for the Dutch market. The 2009 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 2009, the spirit matured at Kennethmont under the post 2001 steam heating regime. Fifteen years brought the strength to 58.5%, 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. 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.