Ardnamurchan AD/Core Release

Ardnamurchan is one of the new breed of young, ‘challenger’ distilleries in Scotland, both in age (having only been built in 2014) and approach. With an admirable, sometimes incredulous, focus on transparency, they make all of the details of your whisky available online via a QR code - how long the mash was fermented, the percentage at which the cut is taken for the new make and even the cask origins for your particular bottle of whisky. For many whisky drinkers, this is like peaking behind the curtain and unnecessary but, for the most nerdy of drammers, it is exactly the transparency that many wish was more commonplace. But what does the spirit taste like?…