Laphroaig 1998 SMWS 29.262 So long and thanks for all the medicine
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | 2019 |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 55.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
바랜 밀짚빛이 잔 안에서 맑게 빛난다. 1998년 빈티지의 라프로익은 세컨드필 버번 배럴에서 20년을 보내며 거친 피트를 부드럽게 다듬어 냈다. 향에서는 소독약을 떠올리게 하는 요오드와 마른 풀을 태운 훈연, 레몬이 또렷하게 오른다. 입에 머금으면 55.6도의 기운 위로 그을린 피트와 소금기, 바닐라의 단맛이 매끄럽게 번진다. 라프로익 특유의 약품 같은 개성이 또렷이 깃들어 있고 여운은 식어 가는 재와 짭조름한 미네랄로 길게 이어진다. 오랜 숙성이 거친 피트를 다듬어 약품 같은 개성이 한결 부드럽고 둥글게 흐른다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
In the words of a certain Alsatian marketing guru: millimetric! That is to say, purity and blade-like precision. A wonderfully thick smokiness that recalls buckets of hot tar, black pepper on smoked mackerel, still warm bonfire embers, seawater, dried kelp and crushed aspirin mixed with seashells and chalk. I just adore this kind of profile which manages to be simultaneously pure, precise, coastal, invigorating and yet also very aromatically complex and rather elegant. There’s also this rich seam of medicine running through it. Bandages, embrocations, antiseptic, floor cleaners and various no-nonsense ointments that are usually confined to hospitals. Some farmyard as well with these hints of raw peat and sheep wool. With water: dilution really brings out the farminess now. There’s dung, silage, mud, clay and big wafting peat smoke. Still in the background though is brine, burning rosemary wood, black olive tapenade and anchovy paste. Totally thrilling Laphroaig!
restaurant Palate
wow! Superb oiliness. It really has everything: medicine, peat smoke, grease, engine oils, farmyard, seashore brilliance and sharp notes of lemon juice, ash, tar, iodine, seawater and smoked grist soaked in brine. There’s a kind of seesaw between a heavier, greasier profile, the weight of which pulls at the more elevated, sharper, precise qualities of salinity, citrus, sea air, earth, raw barley and smoke. With water: really perfect now with water. Olive oil mixed with brine, green olives, preserves lemons, antiseptic, more iodine, TCP, mercurochrome, bandages. Classical Laphroaig only bigger, broader and more complex. You never get away from this feeling of being caught between the hearth of a peat fire and the seashore
timer Finish
long, lemony, very oily, tarry, briny and full of kiln smoke, engine grease, mineral salts and lots of thick, smoked fish notes