ABV: 57.3 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 5/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is medicinal and peaty. At first there’s a mix of iodine, dry soil, campfire smoke and honey. When it settles there’s a slight fresh fruitiness starting to emerge. Vanilla and honey continuosly move forward and the whole becomes very balanced between sensations after a while but it’s still rowdy. There’s a lot of small things floating around like lemon, butterscotch and coastal notes as well. This is a great nose with a lot to discover.

Mouth: It starts out with an immidiate dry astringency and a nice spicy touch with a sweet outer shell. There’s a big hit of iodine and coastal notes together with a burnt oakiness with a hint of old wooden furniture. It’s sweet and there’s still a vanilla and honey layer surrounding everything. It’s not fruity at this point and the spicyness is hiding a lot of the intricacy found on the nose. It’s got a rich mouthfeel nontheless. After some time the complexity grows and the notes of old oak becomes more clear.

Finish: The transition is surprisingly soft and it never spikes. The spicyness is still high but it adds to the experience without overpowering everything else. The lemon note is now quite strong in the back. The middle part is accentuating the old wooden furniture with some dust. The sweetness is still surrounding the edges and the medicinal notes float around somewhere in between. The late finish is old oak and peat. There’s a thin, bitter coffee note added in the late finish. It lasts a long time before it fades. This is a fantastic whisky which accents the Laphroaig character really well.

Additional information
This whisky was aged for 11-19 years in ex-bourbon hogsheads. 5000 bottles were released.

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