This is everything we want in Islay Scotch, in a Laphroaig bottling, that we desire! The nose is filled with peat, salt air, smoky beach campfire, mocha and vanilla. The palate continues what the nose started: sweet peat, ocean brininess, smoke, cocoa, kelp. The spice notes imparted from the oak influence mesh well with the Islay profile to make a very complete whisky that does not sip like an overproof monster-- this whisky has the balance and finesse needed to tame the high proof and make it immensely pleasureable to enjoy neat. Wow. Magic elixir.
Cask #6080, aged in 2014 virgin French Oak (medium toast), only 288 bottles produced. 58.7% ABV
Laphroaig: On the far edge of the Scotch whisky map, it's supposed that the art of distillation was first brought to Islay by Irish monks. Being remote, it's an art that flourished in the hands of the islanders, whose illegal operations tested the resolve and means of the tax man. Eventually, the law relaxed, various whisky makers set up legitimate distilleries, among them a pair of farmers, Donald and Alexander Johnston, who in 1815 founded their distillery on the island's south coast. Laphroaig, so called after its location, 'broad hollow by the bay.' It would remain in family hands for the next 139 years.
Cask #6080, aged in 2014 virgin French Oak (medium toast), only 288 bottles produced. 58.7% ABV
Laphroaig: On the far edge of the Scotch whisky map, it's supposed that the art of distillation was first brought to Islay by Irish monks. Being remote, it's an art that flourished in the hands of the islanders, whose illegal operations tested the resolve and means of the tax man. Eventually, the law relaxed, various whisky makers set up legitimate distilleries, among them a pair of farmers, Donald and Alexander Johnston, who in 1815 founded their distillery on the island's south coast. Laphroaig, so called after its location, 'broad hollow by the bay.' It would remain in family hands for the next 139 years.
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