Laphroaig 1964 BR

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Laphroaig
Bottler	Berry Bros & Rudd (BR)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1964
Bottled Year	1981
Age	-
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	43.0%
Volume	750 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Maritime

Peaty

Oaky

Sweet

Spicy

Fruity

Herbal

Creamy

Honey

Vanilla

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Chocolate

Tasting Notes

Colour

mahogany

air Nose

this wonder is drier and much more phenolic than the 1975 at first nosing, with more peat smoke as well as some great mineral and even metallic notes (perfect OBE). Unfolds like a… err, hem, a Sevillan fan, with notes of roasted chestnuts, coffee beans, cigar smoke, tar, ashes, dry black raisins, leather, old style cough syrup, ‘fisherman’s net’, hints of Fernet-Branca and other bitter liqueurs, moss, shoe polish, soot… Give it time and it becomes a little fruitier, with unexpected notes of cranberries and other red berries. No need to tell you it’s a masterpiece

restaurant Palate

sweeter and rounder than on the nose, a tad fatter, with some prunes and orange marmalade coating your mouth before the ‘phenolmenal’ cavalry arrives. It’s all more or less in the same vein as what we got in the nose, with maybe just a little more herbal, orangey and spicy notes. Gets finally very ashy and sooty, with this feeling of having just swallowed an ashtray – I’m sure you see what I mean. It’s quite amazing that this puppy didn’t lose any smokiness throughout the years in wood and then in glass – or it was the ultimate peat monster at time of filling

timer Finish

medium long, dry, sooty, ashy and tarry. Some verbena in the aftertaste that makes for a perky signature

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