Win Ardbeg 17 Year Old — Committee Exclusive
99p each | Max 10 per person
A ghost brought back from the dead. 17 years. Committee members only.
The original Ardbeg 17 launched in 1997, one of the first bottles out of the distillery after Glenmorangie rescued it from silence. It became a cult favourite — then Ardbeg killed it off in 2004. Two decades later, Dr Bill Lumsden went back and rebuilt it from scratch.
To do it, Ardbeg had to break every rule it now lives by. Modern Ardbeg is non-chill filtered and bottled at 46% or above. The 1997 recipe wasn’t. So the team combined peated and unpeated stock, chill filtered it, and bottled at 40% ABV — exactly as it was. Lumsden traced the original flavour profile note by note to get it right.
The result is Ardbeg turned down rather than turned up, and it’s a revelation. The nose is fresh and clean — pine resin, aniseed, sea spray and a soapy lavender softness that’s almost delicate for Islay. Water pulls out flinty minerality, sweet peat and toasting bread. The palate is creamy, with aniseed toffee, café latte and fennel, the smoke held right back, before a long finish of chewy oak, cocoa powder and tar.
A Committee release, allocated in tiny numbers to members and a handful of select retailers. Most people will never get near one. This one’s 99p a go.
SELL-OUT BONUS: If all tickets sell, £50 website credit is added as a second prize. Two winners. Main prize and credit. But only if we sell out.
2nd & 3rd place: £5 website credit
Closes Sunday 16th August 11:59pm — Draw Monday 17th August 12:30pm live on YouTube
Free UK shipping via our Scottish distributor
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You must be aged 18 or over to enter. Under-age entrants will be removed from the competition without reimbursement. Please note that ID checks will be carried out at delivery.
All entrants must be UK residents. Accounts created from outside the UK will be deleted and entry fees will be forfeit.
Only entrants who submit the correct answer will be entered into the prize draw. Entrants who answer incorrectly will not be entered but will still be charged.
The draw will take place on the closing date shown above, or sooner if all tickets sell. The winner and any runners-up will be selected live using a third-party random draw service. Entrants can verify their tickets were included.
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Older bottles may show signs of age, wear or imperfection to the bottle, label or packaging. The absence of a specific condition statement does not imply that the prize is in perfect condition. We cannot guarantee that the contents will be free from the effects of age, cork taint, oxidation or other faults.
If a bottle is broken in transit, we will either replace it or refund the amount we paid to acquire it. However, we cannot accept responsibility for cosmetic damage to labels, boxes or packaging that occurs during shipping.