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…
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Nothing I've tried comes close
Fabulous, distinct, divine ...drink this late on a Sunday evening and lapse into heavenliness. This is beyond earthly tastes. Incredible.
Pound for pound, probably one of the best whiskys you can buy. Not too expensive (occasionally £28 on offer) and unreal flavours. Hits all the notes for me.. Sweet, smokey, peaty and woody. Astonishingly easy to drink.
I find when my whisky bottle has a few glasses left I enjoy browsing the web and researching whisky's ... and then end up buying yet another bottle of Talisker 10; simply because I love it so much! Now my birthday has rolled around and I've been bought a Talisker 10, so treated myself to a Laphroaig 10 and sat down with them side-by-side. I am literally in love with this Laphroiag 10. It's actually far more complex in its flavours than I expected and just so damn easy to drink. My one criticism would be that I wouldn't mind it being slightly stronger in strength. It goes down far too easily and I can see this bottle being drained too quickly. An absolutely gorgeous whisky if you enjoy peaty mouthfuls of campfire smoke and for me personally a wonderful, almost vanilla undertone. I will definitely be grabbing another one of these bottles ... possibly too soon.
This is honestly one of my all time favorites. The flavor profile is amazing and there isn't anything else quite like it out there. I have had many Islay whiskys and I don't really directly notice the smoke anymore. I think it's sort of like acquiring a taste for spicy food. That being said, these one star comments saying it tastes like disinfectant, tar, or just overall foul are disingenuous to the product. It's like when little kids don't appreciate good food until their older.
