Laphroaig 1989 20 Year Old Sherry Cask Douglas Laing Platinum Selection

Laphroaig SMWS 29.102 Cowboy’s campfire dram

A Laffie from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, matured on a refill sherry butt. But a very active butt, judging from the colour. Hmm, that did not come out right, did it? Replace butt with cask in the second sentence, please. It was labelled Cowboy’s campfire dram. The ABV is amazing. Grand nose! Dried figs and fresh dades wrapped in bacon, blood...

Score 91/100

Laphroaig 18 Year Old

Nose: at first a little shy and bitter, needs some time to open up. After a drop of water and ten minutes with a lid on I get summery hayfields, overripe pear, asphalt ,marzipan, vanilla sticks, toffee, roasted almonds and deep dark moisty celler oaktones. The peat is waaay in the background. After a while it gets softer with custard cake, resin...

Score 94/100

Laphroaig Quarter Cask

Loved, loved, loved it! From the second I opened the bottle I just knew this was going to be awesome. My first Islay whisky and cant wait to try more. Nose full of peat, camp fire and rubber, imagine squealing tires and the smoke coming from them....freaking awesome. Taste was exactly that..with a faint vanilla sweetness on the backend and a...

Score 91/100

Laphroaig 18 Year Old

Colour In the sunlight, the 18 is reminiscent of liquid topaz – a brilliant yellow-gold; on the glass, it is the colour of honeycomb and captured sunlight. Body Medium body (though I found this to be the slightest bit lighter than the 15) with the legs to prove it! Nose There is a sweet aroma – like honeysuckle – the start. A lot of the sea in...

Score 89/100