First released for the Travel Retail market, Laphroaig Four Oak features a marriage of whisky matured in a quartet of casks, namely ex-bourbon barrels, quarter casks, virgin American oak barrels and European oak hogsheads. Somewhat following on the theme from their popular Triple Wood expression...
Roasted coffee beans, almond pastries, sawdust and medicinal peat.
An intense waft of smoke as it opens, with earthy vanilla pod and subtle cookie dough following it up.
Drying, quite spicy and long.
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Almost certainly chill filtered, but for once no caramel added by the looks of it. Coatline is thin, legs slow to run, but quite quick when they do. Nose - smoke, ash, smokey bacon, iodine, coconut, vanilla, piney aromatic. After half an hour or more in the air, the smokiness fades and is replaced by aromatic rose aroma, ethyl laureate, suggesting the turbo maturation has left this. Palate - salty, smokey bacon, perfumed, carbolic Finish - medium length, certainly not the longevity of the ten year old, smoke fades, carbolic after a few minutes. Guaiacol finish of roasted coffee.
Smooth whisky.Worth of every penny. Different but still something that you will recognise it as Laphroaig.
Quite interesting expression... Not the typical Laphroaig but still recommended to try and enjoy. Creamy and sweet with long spicy finish and of course... lots of smoky taste here!
Quite interesting expression... Not the typical Laphroaig but still recommended to try and enjoy. Creamy and sweet with long spicy finish and of course... lots of smoky taste here!
Thick oily coatline with slow running legs taking time to develop reflecting the wood oils and the vaporised peat oil in the husk. Nose - Immediate smell of coffee, with caramels, vanilla, a little resinous and sappy perhaps. Peat is not strong, cresolic presence much reduced from 10 year old Laphroaig. I suspect this may be chill filtered with caramel colourant added. Fairly strong maltose presence. Palate - briney, oily, hot spicey, not as sweet nor peaty as he nose would suggest. Finish - medium length and a bit tannic from European hoggies and new wood.
