Laphroaig Cask Strength Batch #002
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2010 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Barrels |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 남안의 라프로익은 요오드와 약재를 떠올리게 하는 강한 피트로 상징되는 증류소다. 잔에는 옅은 호박색이 흐른다. 열 해를 채운 이 캐스크 스트렝스에서 깊고 순수한 이탄과 약재 뿌리, 말린 허브, 설탕에 절인 오렌지 껍질의 향이 열린다. 한 모금에는 뿌리채소 같은 흙내와 타르, 잉크, 마른 꿀, 훈제 소금기가 56.3도의 힘으로 강하게 번진다. 혀 위에서 이탄의 흙내가 마른 꿀의 단맛과 겹치며 해안가 약향이 압도적으로 번진다. 여운은 마른 이탄과 온기로 대단히 길게 이어진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
pale amber
air Nose
what to say? An extraordinarily pure and deep aromatic peat profile, how you might imagine a slab of 3000 year old bog, smouldering on a plate would smell. But there's also medicinal roots, dried herbs, ancient liqueurs of various type, crystallised orange rind, bergamot, wintergreen and preserved exotic fruits. I find it very close in profile to the old 14yo OB bottling from the 1950s with this harmonious intertwining of peat, sherry and complicated tertiary notes
restaurant Palate
it has probably softened somewhat with the lower fill level in this bottle, but the power and charisma of the peat flavour is still astonishing. Deep, broad, rooty, organic, herbal, vegetal, coastal and medical all at the same time. The sort of whisky that rips up and completely re-draws your internal mental assumptions about peat flavour. I also forgot to mention some stunning dried out old honey and honeycomb notes, also hessian, ink, pure tar extracts and this encroaching, utterly stunning saltiness, like peat smoked sea salt! One of these whiskies that leads the way and leaves you scrabbling to keep up…
timer Finish
extremely long and profoundly deep, warm and glowing with old, dry, earthy peat