Laphroaig 1966 It
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Intertrade (It) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1966 |
| Bottled Year | 1987 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting 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!
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