Laphroaig 1988 DL The Old Malt Cask
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Douglas Laing (DL) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1988 |
| Bottled Year | 2006 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | Rum Cask Finish |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 61.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
not bold at first nosing, rather delicately waxy, smoky and orangey, with also hints of passion fruits and guavas (somewhat like the famous 10yo’s for Bonfanti). Gets more maritime with time but never really medicinal (except for a little camphor). Whiffs of wrack, seashells, floated wood, raw wool, beach sand… Also whiffs of putty. Again, it’s more delicate than wham-bam but everything’s in place. Gets more lemony with time
restaurant Palate
oh, it’s got much more oomph than expected. Directly salty (pickled anchovies?) and very lemony (lemon marmalade), peaty and smoky… The middle is maybe a tad weaker and sort of watery after that (there’s kind of a little slump) but it fires back at the finish, with again quite some salt, peat and pepper. Too bad it was slightly weakish on the palate ‘between the attack and the finish’, it would have fetched more than just 87 points in my books. Laphroaig 18 yo 1988/2006 (61.9%, Doulas Laing OMC for Binny’s for The Plowed Society, cask ref 2281, 154 bottles, USA) After their stunning recent sherried peat monsters (Broraggeddon, Port Ellen) our friends the Plowedsters selected a Laphroaig that does not seem to exhale any sherry – but that was bottled at a whopping +/-62% (and not 50% as written on DL’s golden top label – does that make this even more collectable?) Enough babbling, let’s try it