A half bottle of the iconic, medicinal 10 year Islay's bestselling distillery, Laphroaig. This is a massive, punchy dram, it is said the medicinal character is from the high moss content in the peat.
This opens on big, smoky muscular peat notes. There are spices, and liquorice, as well as a big dose of salt. This whisky has become slightly sweeter in recent years, and it beautifully on the nose, amidst the classic iodine/sticking plasters and cool wood smoke we love.
Seaweed-led, with a hint of vanilla ice cream and more than a whiff of notes from the First Aid box (TCP, plasters etc). The oak is big, and muscles its way into the fore as you hold this whisky over your tongue. An upsurge of spices develop – cardamom/black pepper/chilli.
Big and drying, as the savoury, tarry notes build up with an iodine complexity.
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when my father went to England for my 21 birthday I asked him to bring home a bottle of scotch. little did I know that he would bring me home a bottle of Laphroaig 10 year and as soon as I opened the bottle I fell in love. the aroma is intoxicating and I loved it, but nothing was better than the first sip and holding it in my mouth to enjoy the peaty flavor. I personally call this my favorite and it has become hard to drink the low level cheap stuff because of it. but all in all I love this scotch.
My dog Camilla, talking to plants and a dram of Laphroaig. These are some of life's great pleasures one feels. Charles.
being a late admirer of my ain lands drink (due in no part to the boyhood bravado of braveheart lol) I have now started to acquire not only the taste of whisky but also the smells and unique processes involved in the making of each individual brand, if I can be so bold as to label a true whisky in such a manner. My father, whom , was a Grouse man, tried to introduce me to these differences but being an all knowing youth I decieded I knew best. Oh to be proven wrong in Laphroaig 10 year old I have fully come to appreciate what my father maent a whisky to be savoured & not soured by the addition of water & to be inhaled as the smoky & peat aroma serves to salivate the palate of the unknowing.As a true convert to the wonders of whisky this is a true pleasure to the palate of the unsuspecting
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