Cairdeas means friendship in Gaelic, a fitting moniker for a bottling released to celebrate the distillery's popular friends programme. It's really rather good.
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Buttery and soft, with just a wisp of smoked kippers. There's only the slightest hint of the carbolic notes you find in the ten year old expression. It's a heavy butterscotch sweetness that runs the show, with a hefty portion of salted caramel.
Rounded and smooth, the butter spreads itself, melts and reveals Laproaig's signature smoky heart. It's pungent but not overpowering, a cushion of smoke rather than an enveloping cloud. But this is a big mouth-filling whisky; it just does it with finesse. That sweetness from the nose is heavily pronounced, and tastes remarkably like the crumbly fudge you find all over Islay.
Sweet, long and comforting.
A well-named and delicious whisky. I want to spend more time with it.
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Probably a fair amount of young whisky is this but it's got a good nose and is certainly drinkable. I wouldn't pay $200 bucks though, unless you're a must have Laphroaig collector type.
Guys, remember it is a NAS tipple:)
