Laphroaig 1998 SLC Artist Edition by Ian Gray
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Scottish Liqueur Centre (SLC) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | 2009 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 62.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
holy featherless Capercaillie! One of the most pure and extraordinarily fruity noses I can recall. Brings immediately to mind Bowmore 1955 (the wee ceramic jug and the later 40yo). A pure expression of passion fruit, guava, papaya and mango, but also as you spend more time nosing, comes star fruit, kumquat and jasmine tea. I am sure there’s some peat in there, but the nose is just totally and utterly dominated by tropical fruit. Some further nosing time reveals heather honey, waxes, dried heather flowers, ancient herbal and honey-led liqueurs. Eventually a little peat smoke along with some very delicate herbal and fruit teas. An utterly spellbinding and mind-expanding nose
restaurant Palate
from a whole galaxy of fruit, we pivot to a gentle but decisive sledgehammer of thick, astonishing complex, drying peat smoke. Full of herbs, roots, dried flowers, ancient medicinal aspects, salt-infused, crystallised honey, gentian, mineral oil, liquorice - gah, it becomes utterly impossible to keep up. I was really fearing the palate could not compete with such a nose, but really it’s like a whisky of two perfect halves: the nose handles the fruit and the palate takes care of the peat. I never tried a whisky like this. Emotional and sublime in a way that makes you want to both laugh giddily and shed a tear
timer Finish
extremely long, glowing with incredible old style peat flavours, sublime tropical fruits encroach back in amongst everything once again. I am not really sure what to say, I don’t think I ever tasted a whisky quite like this