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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It's everything that everyone says it is. It's a flavour bomb slap in the face, and it amazes me that it's become ubiquitous and obtainable everywhere, though I'm grateful too, as it means I can always get some, and reasonably priced too!
Being new to whisky and malts this has an amazing taste and after a long weeks work you need to relax and this is my first choice great taste great story just sit back with some filtered water and enjoy.
First drank this stuff circa 1996...loved it. It started my whisky love affair really. Then it was lagavulin , Bhunnahabin....since then I have been lucky to start a fair collection myself... I have drunk some rather special stuff...this remains a favorite ....And there are some whisky snobs who are a bit snooty about the 10...I still love it. I even like the fact that its bottled at 43percent..means I can have 2 on a Sunday night and function...and if there is colour added its not exactly obvious. always in my cupboard.
Beautiful peaty and smokey well balanced whiskey
I bought this one today and I wasn't sure I was buying the right product, Horst L wasn't too impressed with it.. ralfy gave this 91 and 84 in his reviews though (there are two reviews of this type on his channel). Laphroig state on the bottle that they are the most richly flavoured of all scotch whiskies, I thought it was a bullshit but at the moment I am looking for maturity and less alcohol bite. But I decided to give this one a chance, To be honest, it has probably the best 10 year old whisky you can get.. it is quite rich for a 10 yr old. That tells us, that they are good casks and they take care of each factor in their process. But because it's a 10 year old, it's less 'smooth' than the matured ones. But they were right, it's a good one. And to be noticed, the smoke is not covering everything, I don't know the excactly ppm number but it's well balanced. Trust me. I gotta give this 4.5 stars.
