Laphroaig (Jean Boyer) - The Fifth Birthday (forum bottling) - 10 y.o. - 61,2%6
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- Bottler:
- Jean Boyer
- Age:
- 10 years
- Alcohol:
- 61,2%
- Collection:
- The forum bottlings
- Bottle details:
- distillation: 1998 bottling: 2008
- non chill filtered cask strength
- Special bottlng for the forum of whisky-distilleries.info
- /260 bottles
- average
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- (88,73)
- price class:
6 notes disponibles en français
Johannes_Sauer
Colour: Brite straw with soft darker glints
Nose: Typical Laphroaig, but interesting and quite different from the regular bottling. The typical terms can be quoted like phenolic, smoky, whiff from the sea etc etc, but there is a very appealing fruitiness (bitter apple, grapefuit peel) combined with rare woods and old leather bound book volumes. Also an interesting and so far seldom experienced note of burnt electric cables (Blown fuse).
Taste: W/o water, it’s the typical dryness of a Laphroaig and a fine smoky sweetness (sugar beet syrup the kind we have in Germany sometimes for breakfast), with water there’s more taste of the cask wood (oak? Hogshead? Quarter cask? The label says nothing) combined with soft grapefruit notes.
Finish: This is one really long finish indeed: After the leaving of the soft sweet syrup there is a mighty crescendo of very fine and well rounded smoky and bitter wooden aromes pulling your mouth together for at least 15 minutes....
Conc.: A very interesting and fulfilling Laphroaig but for sure no every day dram
Date: 22 June 2009
2009
Salt smoke and the medicinal character of the nose denote clearly the origin of this whisky. Old leather and undergrowth hints follow after a while. Quite an intense nose anyway.
In the palate, all the complex and bitter smoothness of a good Laphroaig. Hints of coffee and tobacco beside the peat. The very high percentage of alcohol is perceptible but does not hinder at all.
A very long and warm finish, with this kind of wild warmth recalling the long evenings round an open wood fire.
2008
