Laphroaig 2009 Highgrove
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2009 |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | 12년 |
| Cask Type | First use Bourbon |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 남안의 바위 해변에서 강렬한 피트로 이름 높은 라프로익이 하이그로브를 위해 내놓은 12년이다. 2009년 원액을 첫 사용 버번 통에서 숙성해 46도로 병입했으며 잔에는 옅은 호박빛이 돈다. 바닷가의 짠 내와 젖은 해초, 훈연한 소금과 요오드가 우아하게 얽혀 오른다. 입에서는 기름지고 메마른 토탄이 입천장을 천천히 덮으며 검은 올리브와 로즈메리, 블러드 오렌지가 뒤를 잇는다. 여운은 절인 레몬과 그을음, 재의 인상으로 마무리된다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
Amber
air Nose
It’s a gentle and very coastal and salty one. I remember a paler bottling that was far more classically tropical and fruity. This one is more nervous and resinously peaty with, wood ash, seashore, dried seaweed, minerals, smoked sea salt, iodine and various camphor, hessian and dunnage notes. Various medical tinctures, mercurochrome and TCP. Globally it’s very gentle and elegant though. Some burnt toffee, a few wet leaves and a little olive oil. Some tar liqueur and ripe orange zest with a few more delicate notes of coal smoke, fermenting hay and sheep fank. Delicacy is the name of the game here
restaurant Palate
The power goes up a notch here. An oily, uber dry and emphatic peatiness envelops the palate. A big farmyard fug also arrives. The seashore aspects are pushed to the background and the medicinal qualities come across as thick and drying. Black olives, rosemary, umami paste, a little blood orange as well
timer Finish
Some preserved lemons, medicine, soot, ash. Not the longest finish sadly