Laphroaig ( Official) - 10 years - 10 y.o. - 43%
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Age:
- 10 years
- Alcohol:
- 43%
- Collection:
- The Malt Heritage Collection
- Bottle details:
- average
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- (83,93)
- price class:
7 notes disponibles en français
The nose reveals both peat and fruit, a delicious and delicate contrast withs some additional medicinal hints.
In the mouth, smoke and peat, medicine, fruits, and contrast between all this elements. A festival for the papillas, but a bit too weak in my opinion.
The finish in pleasant, revealing the same contrasts, with however a domination of dry peat.
2006Peat, but also a kind of spicy freshness characterizes the nose.
The palate confirms this, but reveals a great complexity. A kind of medicine? Anyway, the taste is made from several elements, allying liquorice and fruits, peat and salt.
A relatively long finish where all the complexity from the palate remains for minutes.
2004This well balanced and very fine malt is characterized by the peat at the first nosing. The exceptionally complex taste leaves a marvelous remembrance, prolonged by a average long finish. A real classic, which cannot miss in any whisky collection. It's price, more than reasonable, makes it one of the best price-quality ratings.
2003Jon Saunders
This was a first for me. I was given some history of the Laphroaig Distillery process by a dear friend who warned me advance of my tasting, that the distinct "hospital" smell was a product of formaldehyde produced by the peat. At any rate, that did not spoil my experience.
After nosing the sample I felt an inrush of "hospital" smell if you will, followed by a relaxing smooth aromas I presumed to be peat.
The body of the sample was firm, holding on to the inner walls of the tasting glass for nearly 3.5 seconds before starting to "leg down".
It's rigid yet pleasant texture excited the taste bubs of my tongue and I hardly realized I had swallow it except I started to feel comfortably warm.
I have had limited exposure to the vast number of Single Malt distillers up until this last visit to Europe. I shall add this bottle to my collection in the USA and enjoy it for some time. Thank you for accepting my comments.
2006J.L. Zamora
Nose: Smoke and peaty and something how antiseptic or medicinal.
Palate: Confirm the nose smoke and peaty whit a touch op spicy. Whit whater the smoke is more intense. finish.
A little short but delicious.
2008Henrik Johansson
(Version 40%)
Apperance: Pale Copper
Nose: Full, big nose with some smoke and tar. Still, the first impression was of fresh oranges. Freshly aromatic scents. More chemical hints emerge with water, but it's still very pleasant. Overall, the diluted dram is dry, not the most complex but pretty interesting non the less.
Body: Firm and quite oily. Palate: Dryish, fresh, not overly burnt. I recall the 10 y.o. cask strength bottling had a lot more smoke, this one was surprisingly mild. Neat dram is much sweater and also has more smoke and is more mouth filling. I prefer this dram neat.
2009Thomas Widter
This has been my favorite bottle of scotch for some time now. I discovered Laphroaig one and a half years ago, shortly after I had moved. My new surroundings are now interwoven with Laphroaig whenever I taste it, it feels completely like home to me. The peat used creating Laphroaig is a lot mossier compared to other Islay distilleries (it comes from a different part of Islay), and the richness of the spirit, its slightly fragmented but thorough sweetness and its creaminess nicely incorporate the peat flavor. It tastes like an anchor made out of honey ish candy, that has been lost at sea and been mysteriously brought up by the distillery, broken up and made into barley. On a hot day, the sweetness might need to be cooled down a little: I tend to put a cube of ice in my 10yo on some days. A truly great dram, and a quite affordable one.
2008Johannes_Sauer
(version 40%)
Colour: Darker gold, amber.
Nose: A classic nose, it was love at the first sniff: The familar picture of iodine, peat, salt and moss, a cold afternoon in Port Ellen Harbour when there are fires in the chimney. But there is far more to detect: I like that honey note, the gentle flowers which linger in the back and that mildly restrained cane sugar note.
Taste: Here the sugar is a little stronger, but very harmonious bedded between the mighty peat. There is also a pretty pinch of sea salt together with grounded dry chillies, which also dominates the
Finish: Clearly peppered, I did not have that strong and clean chilli finish in my memory (My last bottle was quite 4 years ago). Long and lingering notes of wood, smoke and seaweed.
Conc.: They say now, ten years ago the 10yo was better and more complex (more like the Quarter Cask today, which I also favored in the last years) but I am glad to say, this 10yo is still a classic, a class of its own.
2009
