Smoke and sherry here from Laphroaig! The legendary distillery on the south coast of Islay has gone and released a fab 10 year old single malt Scotch whisky which has been finished in Oloroso sherry casks for over 12 months, and bottled up at 48% ABV. Alongside the familiar, intensely peaty elements of Laphroaig's classic 10 Year Old expression, you'll also find helpings of dark chocolate and maple syrup notes in this one's flavour profile. Yum!
Smoked meats, maple syrup, BBQ lemon, charred oak, a smidge of coffee.
More roasted cedar and peat smoke, with a hint of iodine tucked away. Dark chocolate, honey, and vanilla pod.
A balanced finish of sherried sweetness and smouldering peat.
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Standard Laphroaig always reminds me initially of the flavour of water from a swimming pool or being beaten about the head with clumps of seaweed to get to the peaty essence. But this Sherry Oak Finish, my dear friends is indeed the dog's bollocks. Imagine liquidised chocolate and cherry cake with sultanas behind rampaging down your throat and suddenly order is ensured by the clinical steel of oak shavings, and then someone dips an eclair in a half pint of sherry and shoves it into your mouth while shrieking maniacally. You feel you might be in sudden state of total sensory breakdown when a lonely cellist send strains of divine music from the hills just over there where the wee burn tinkles down the valley. You feel an immense sense of peace enter your heart and say to yourself-"Aye a wee drop of watter might nay go amiss here laddie." Buy it. Drink it and may your heart sing as the cellist is joined by a flamenco guitarist!
Bought this a few times now, excellent balance of phenolics with the smooth sweet flavours of the sherry cask. More full and well-rounded than the standard 10 year old.
I'm not a great lover of Laphroaig because of the iodine, TCP, medicinal palate! I don't want my whisky tasting of TCP! But, I like peated, smoky whisky and this Sherry Cask finish gives it a lovely fruity, smoky taste, which suits my palate.
Thoroughly pleased with it, as I am with all Laphroaigs.
Massive Islay fan and drinker...across the whole range ..this is a nice dram for sure but thats it ..nice..its not imo of an Uigeadail Corryvrekan or your Octomore...and its not quite up to the 10yr old LP cask (which is always excellent)....I just think its needs a little nore umph...ABV wish..but happy to have a bottle in the collection.
