Single Malt
Scotland
28 Apr 1997
25 Jul 2018
3348
Bourbon
We got our hands on some smashing Laphroaig to bottle up for our Single Cask Series! This 21-year-old Islay single malt was distilled back in April 1997 and left to age in a first-fill bourbon hogshead until we bottled it up in July 2018 at cask strength. No chill filtration, no additional colouring. Just tasty whisky from Islay's south coast.
Roast chestnut and caramelised orange, heavy smoke with a medicinal core, a slight hint of black tea.
Plentiful peat juxtaposed with chewy toffee sweetness. Solid oak notes and a few touches of seaweed salinity.
Subtle ash and lasting smoke, joined by dates and oily walnuts.
I've had better experiences. Not like its bad.
Lovely dram. Definitely a great experience. Peat layered Salted Toffee. Long nutty finish. I find the early comments completely useless as it seemed like a pricing protest instead of anything useful. Clearly they have not tasted the whisky.
Well, it was my first ever whisky and surely opened a new, exciting and wonderful world. Right now I have six different Laphroaig bottles, and am trying to start a real collection. I live in Iceland and here we don't have so many different types to coose from. Bought the 2015 Cairdeas in Washington DC.
Rather disappointed by the pricing of this one. Interesting bottling for sure but even at half the price it would be difficult to compare to the official 25 year old cask strength bottling
