Laphroaig 1974 SV Vintage Collection - Dumpy
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | 1991 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Wood |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.6% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
ruby/mahogany
air Nose
I cannot not think of the great 1974 for LMDW, only this is of course a younger version of that profile. Stunning old style sherry and peat fused at the hip, but with a slightly more tangy youthfulness keeping everything hyper fresh and still heavily involving many types of fruit. Dark sticky preserved ones, green ones, crystallised ones and of course myriad exotic fruity notes. You can add to this some deeply resinous aromatics such as fir wood resins, huge camphor and linseed oil notes, aged tar liqueurs such as Clacquesin and also aged mead, strawberry wine, plum syrup with star anise and many ancient honey and herbal liqueurs. As expected, stunning! The type of nose you can barely keep up with and if we kept going this tasting note would never end. With water: even broader in its complexity and aromatic detail. Bringing in dried flowers, ruby ales, heather, ink and treacle. Also Maggi liquid seasoning and a sherry profile that manages to be both stunningly salty and fruity
restaurant Palate
immense arrival, tar extracts soaked in pure peat smoke, deeply medicinal with cough syrups, herbal ointments, pristinely salty liquorice and almond oil. Huge, immensely concentrated and spectacularly cohesive whisky that manages to balance massive peat and sherry influences. There's also root beer and cola syrups, pure iodine and more of these wonderful camphory and leathery qualities. With water: salty, fruity, peaty and earthy in way that makes the whole thing feel perfectly savoury, immensely mouth-coating and with this spectacular undertow of dry, herbal peat. We are comfortably in that hypnotic territory where all we can do is plod along after this dazzling whisky!
timer Finish
immensely long, tarry, full of perfectly dry and herbal peat smoke, embrocations, fruit syrups and cordials of many shades and a stunningly chocolatey and herbal bitterness in the aftertaste
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