Laphroaig 1990 SV The Decanter Collection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 남부 해안의 거친 피트 늪과 짠 바닷바람이 라프로익 특유의 약품 같은 훈연을 빚어낸다. 1990년 증류해 버번 배럴에서 18년을 보낸 이 시그나토리 데칸터 컬렉션은 잔에 맑은 황금빛을 띤다. 향에는 소독약 같은 피트와 요오드, 레몬이 강하게 솟고, 입에서는 54.4도의 힘이 짠 훈연과 미네랄, 옅은 단맛으로 흐른다. 여운에는 재와 해초의 짠맛이 오래 잠겨 있다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
smoother than the HB, much more vanilled (first fill bourbon casks?) but also fruitier and rounder, with some pleasant coastal notes (sea air, iodine.) It’s also rather more medicinal than the HB, with hints of tincture of iodine, bandages and a little camphor. Oh, and whiffs of gentian. It’s still a gentle and rather shy Laphroaig so far, that is, let’s hope the palate will be bigger. (Note: opens up just a bit after… one hour! On more citrons and kumquats.)
restaurant Palate
it IS bigger, starting on all things earthy (gentian spirit and liquorice wood – my taste), with quite a saltiness but less than in the HB. Lemon sprinkled oysters, peat, maybe a hint of coriander and even sorrel, and then a rather big oakiness – not plankish of course – that, once again, hints at some kind of new oak treatment, ‘though it’s no vanilla bomb at all. Anyway, it’s good! Faint nuttiness
timer Finish
long, even more on liquorice wood. Lemon