Ardbeg drawn from bourbon and sherry butts and bottled at cask strength (around 54 % ABV), this whisky lives up to its name — uigeadail connotes “a dark and mysterious place” in gaelic. There’s a lot going on in this intensely smoky dram which smells of sultanas, toffee, saddle, chocolate and overripe bananas. Creamy and mouth-coating, it tastes of sweet spices and dry leather cloaked in ash.