Ardnamurchan 'The Midgie' 2025 Release, 48%

Name: Ardnamurchan 'The Midgie' 2025 Release, 48%
Brand: Ardnamurchan
SKU: ADMID252
Price: 57.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£57.00

Ardnamurchan’s cheeky tribute to Scotland’s most notorious insect, “The Midgie” 2025 Release, brings together spirit that is at once gentle and bracing, much like the Highland midge’s bite! Crafted so that every sip recalls a brisk Atlantic breeze, this bottling blends 75% unpeated spirit with a 25% peated core, then matures it in 50% ex-American bourbon barrels, 48% port barriques, and 2% Sherry casks to achieve its complexity. Whether you’re a seasoned highland malt lover or a curious newcomer, “The Midgie” balances lush fruit and gentle smoke with a touch of maritime salinity, making it a whisky that flutters delightfully between sweet and savoury.

Ardnamurchan’s single-malt journey begins with local malted barley, mashed in a bespoke tun heated by renewable-energy-fuelled biomass. The 2025 “Midgie” embraces maturation on the Atlantic edge: half the casks are ex-American bourbon, nearly half are seasoned port barriques, and a small 2% yields Sherry cask influence. Each expression sleeps in dunnage warehouses beside the sea, drawing in that signature salt-kissed air over its ageing year.

This release marks the first time Ardnamurchan has blended such an exact ratio of ex-bourbon, port, and Sherry-casked spirit to achieve a harmonious dance of honeyed fruit, maritime salinity, and gentle peat. The decision to keep the spirit 75% unpeated rather than fully smoky allows “The Midgie” to capture Ardnamurchan’s dual personality: soft, buoyant fruit tempered by just enough peat smoke to remind you of the foreshore. At 48% ABV, it’s bottled uncoloured and unchill-filtered, so you taste every nuance that the peninsula’s pure air and local barley impart.

Pairing Suggestions: Seared scallops with seaweed beurre blanc, oak-smoked salmon canapés, white-pepper pork belly sliders, honey-glazed duck breast.

Tasting Note: On the nose, gammon ham meets torched pineapple alongside prunes dipped in salt, soft almond oil, and coconut. The palate palate gives salt-baked pear, meadowsweet, lemon thyme, cherrywood embers, cocoa powder, and a gentle puff of buoyant smoke.

Origin: Highland, Scotland

Alcohol: 48.0%

10 in stock

Size: 70cl

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Ardnamurchan

Far from the beaten path and surrounded by the raw beauty of Scotland’s western seaboard, Ardnamurchan Distillery sits tucked into the small village of Glenbeg on the eponymous peninsula. This remoteness is by design: founders set out to build a distillery that not only blended seamlessly with its rugged surroundings but also honoured the peninsula’s ancient traditions of self-sufficiency. Today, every drop of new-make spirit is powered by renewable energy (hydro, solar, and biomass) while local barley and peat shape a flavour profile that truly belongs to the Highlands. Behind the scenes, the distillery’s modern architecture conceals a circular economy: draff and pot ale find new life as animal feed on nearby farms, and field-test plots encourage biodiversity under the watchful eyes of founders, who are committed to minimal intervention at every stage.

Ardnamurchan’s distillation team is a tight-knit crew of locals and whisky-minded newcomers, all trained in the art of “light-touch” production. They pride themselves on marrying traditional craft (such as fermenting in both oak and Oregon pine washbacks) with inventive techniques like outside shell-and-tube condensers that use crisp Atlantic air to cool spirit vapour. From mash to maturation, each step is guided by a simple philosophy: let the elemental character of the peninsula shine through. Barrels rest in dunnage warehouses mere miles from the North Atlantic surf, drawing in salty seaside notes as the spirit matures. The result is a range of whiskies that capture the wild, peaty tang of the west coast (smoky yet honeyed, sea-sprayed yet velvety) and speak to a place where nature still reigns supreme.