Laphroaig 1998 SV 30th Anniversary
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | 2018 |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | Refill Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 58.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
light amber
air Nose
this one opens with a more directly greasy and tarry profile. Smouldering twigs, roasted peanuts, mint chocolate, umami seasonings, black olive bread, antiseptic and a kind of wooly, sooty peat profile. It’s also more herbal, these big, dense herbal extract notes and herbal bitters - the kind that make Jagermeister look like Angel Delight! Normally I’m a bit reticent about modern peat and sherry together, but this refill profile really works so far. With water: smoked juniper, pub carpets, squid ink, hot gravel, BBQ sauce, raw seawater, old creel nets and some kind of smoked mussel broth
restaurant Palate
a big, grizzly, sore-headed arrival! Hugely tarry, full of black pepper, smoked teas, meat stocks, damp earth, TCP, iodine drops and smoked beef jerky. Also something like smoked cola syrup (calling all mixologists please...) smouldering pine cones and charcoal. With water: now it sways like pissed Viking on a pub crawl between bitter herbal teas, cough medicine, farmyards, a mechanic’s workshop, the seashore and eventually the hospital I suppose. But it never stumbles or looses balance. You just have to kind of follow it because there’s no way in hell you’d be crazy enough to fight the fucker!
timer Finish
long and full of ashes, brine and black olives. Superbly herbal, tarry, meaty and greasy. No hangover and the police decided it was best to just let it go