Laphroaig 1966 GM
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1966 |
| Bottled Year | 1985 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
옅은 황금빛이 잔 속에서 단단한 광채로 빛난다. 라프로익의 1966 빈티지를 고든 앤 맥페일이 18년 만에 병입한 채도다. 노즈에서는 옛 라프로익 특유의 의약품 매연, 짠 바닷바람, 그리고 절인 레몬이 또렷이 깃들어 있다. 입에 머금으면 식은 모닥불의 재와 절인 올리브가 두꺼운 질감으로 흐르며 54도의 도수가 60년대 아일라의 단단한 페놀을 활기차게 들어 올린다. 짠맛과 매연이 길게 이어지는 여운에 옛 라프로익의 야성이 깊게 머문다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
Gold
air Nose
A schizophrenic Laphroaig. Immediately beastly with these dirty peat notes but also straining towards refinement with an undercurrent of tropical fruit, seawater and in the middle a wee ocean of complexity with camphor, cough medicine, iodine, smoked salt, resins, fruit syrups and warm kiln peat smoke. Some tangerine peel, blood orange, cinnamon bark, diesel fumes, boiler shed and a whiff of tar liqueur. Some mineral edges as well: wet pebbles and sheep’s wool and such like. With water: tropical, nervous, saline, smouldering peat smoke, citrus, green fruits, melon, papaya. Maltoporn brigade please!
restaurant Palate
A majestic delivery. Singing and syrupy tropical fruits wrapped up in smoked pancetta and gloopy peat oils. Pine resin, tar, mercurochrome, iodine droplets, caraway and smouldering hay. Some kippers, brine and shellfish all appear as well. With water: as on the nose this just becomes the most gloriously peated concoction of fruit juices, smoked fish and seawater. There’s farmyard, medicine, a lick of wax; everything!
timer Finish
Superbly long but becomes beautifully and unexpectedly fragrant with herbs, chamomile, lapsang souchong and some final echoes of iodine. Stupendous!