Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength Batch 002 Bottled 2010

Laphroaig 30 Year Old

Sample thanks to richiesd on RateBeer/BeerAdvocate. Very generous. Clear golden, still, light viscosity, delicate tears. Nose is sweet yellow apples, sharper red apple skin, vanilla, some buttered pancake. Taste is feeling overoaked, tannic, very spicy and wickedly chapping on the palate with wood tannins of almost Spanish cedar spiciness....

Score 54/100

Laphroaig Whisky Trails Real McCoy

This is exclusive to Binny's in Chicago and is a great deal at under $60. It is a curious but scrumptuous combination of sweet peat and iodine. Real McCoy Laphroaig 7yr single cask, cask 4514, bottle 26 or 307 Distilled 01 bottled 08 Nose: gentle smoke, iodine Palate: oily, woody, smoky, mouth-filling, chewy W H2O: super peaty nose 85-90

Score 90/100

Laphroaig Quarter Cask

We glared at each other from across a barren lamp-lit table - a tentative neophyte and a monolith of phenolic devastation, whose insidiousness lay cloaked behind a charming emerald facade. The first encounter was an object lesson in oral brutality. My mouth filled instantly with billowing clouds of filthy coal smoke and austere minerals. Water...

Score 82/100

Laphroaig Cairdeas Feis Ile 2018

Laphroaig puts out the so-called Cairdeas for Feis Ile since 2008. Cairdeas means friendship. I’ve tried them all bar the ones from 2017 and 2019 (if anyone has a sample for sale, get in touch!). Last year’s edition is in my glass today. It’s a vatting of whisky between 7 and 11 years old and was finished on Fino sherry casks. The nose starts...

Score 86/100