Laphroaig 10 Year Old is an iconic Islay single malt whisky, renowned for its heavily peated profile. Expect intense smoke, medicinal iodine, and a hint of seaweed. This whisky captures the bold spirit of Islay and is one of Scotland's most characterful drams. Islay's world-famous Laphroaig distillery is known for its medicinal malts, and its signature 10-year-old is no exception thanks to its full maturation in bourbon barrels, which serves to highlight that individual distillery character. This beauty has won a slew of industry awards over the decades and we love it.
Non-chill filtered for maximum flavour. A must-have for peat lovers!"
Our tasting notes feature a contribution from the longest-serving distillery manager in the brand's history, the wonderful John Campbell, who worked at Laphroaig from 1994 until 2021.
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 appears 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.
The only malt from Laphroaig’s range that John Campbell recommends with water; try it, it opens up the palate massively, providing a dazzling array of additional flavours…
I'm an RN so the first thing I taste/ smell is iodine but you need to get past that to actually get the smokey, peaty, spicy taste. It's not for the single malt newbies but it is amazing! I love Laphroaig and its my go to single malt every time.
if you like compost, old fireplace and iodine its brilliant....I love it and have done so for many years. a real hardcore, face punching whiskey and not for the lightweight barleywater lovers.... if you like it fruity and subtle with a hint of whiskey then its to be avoided. I give it 20 out of 10.
This whisky is very potent with a lot of the taste of burnt clutch, rubber, sweltering sewage and industrial cleaner. Add a nip of water and those flavour ease up but remain more subtly. The whisky's character is then a melody of something that I think is far more floral than I had expected, maybe even sweet(-ish). Great whisky, of course.
Laphroaig tastes like the gun deck of a Ship-of-the-Line. And bravery.
I live very near to a large supermarket, and they have offers on single malts all year round. This bottle was a present however and, when opened it had a very bad taste. I have purchased and drank Laphroaig 10 year old whiskey in the past and it has been very nice. So I am sorry to add this review . But there are at least 2 other reviews in the last couple of months with the same experience.
