Cuvée presentation
Donated by La Maison du Whisky & Elixir Distillers
Bottle available from November 2025
Created in 2011, the La Maison du Whisky’s Artist range brings together exceptional whiskies, such as single casks bottled at cask strength, the majority of them Scottish. Every year, plastic artists, painters, illustrators and photographers are invited to redesign the labels in the series.
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the collection unveils, in an exceptional format, an Ardbeg 2000 aged in sherry casks. This 25-year-old single malt–which was also selected for the Something in the Water series–is available in fifteen numbered magnums, each one unique.
This milestone cuvée puts the spotlight on work from Radhika Surana, drawing from the series ‘Relationships through lichens III’, combining fabric, paper, beads, acrylic paint and lichen: a symbiotic organism capable of growing on bare rock, bark, or poor soil, and highly resistant to extreme climates. Symbolic, in the eyes of this Indian artist, of revival and interdependence.
Each label offers a unique framing for this work of art, revealing its meticulously embroidered details and subtle bluish hues. A character that resonates with many aspects of this 2000 Ardbeg vintage.
The lot on offer includes a unique magnum, as well as the original of an unpublished piece offered by Radhika Surana: Dendrochronology III (2025, hand-embroidered on cotton fabric, 30cm x 30cm).
The distillery Ardbeg
Scotland, Isle of Islay. Distillery operational. Owner: LVMH - Diageo
Founded in 1815 by McDougall & Co. in the south-east of Islay, near the Kildalton Cross, Ardbeg's malt was for a long time overshadowed by its neighbours and competitors Lagavulin and Laphroaig.It was under the patronage of the McDonald family (Glenmorangie Plc), who bought the distillery in 1997, that it was able to develop its potential and introduce the public to the treasures sleeping in its vaults. Between September and November 1997, no less than three bottlings - two of which would become great classics - were released on the market, the Ardbeg 17 Year Old, Ardbeg 1978 and Ardbeg Provenance 1974. The following decade was rich in single cask, cask strength bottlings matured in sherry and bourbon casks, each more impressive than the next. And it was dressed in a new green bottle with confident Celtic-Gothic aesthetics that Ardbeg flooded the market for fans of malts dominated by aromas of smoke, peat and tiger balm.
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