Laphroaig 1998 vW The Ultimate - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Laphroaig |
| Bottler | van Wees (vW) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | 2011 |
| Age | 13년 |
| Cask Type | Refill Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 60.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
imagine you just opened a new pack of Werther’s Originals (of the peated kind, hint, hint.) Huge toffee and smoke plus some milk chocolate, then, very gradually, more and more Laphroaigness, between brine and antiseptic. It’s a bit hot but it seems that we have a winner in our glass… With water: evolves toward fino and vin jaune, walnuts, leather, curry powder and heaps of kelp, both dry and fresh. I’d even add Thai crab soup ;-)
restaurant Palate
A-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop bam-boom! No, no tutti frutti, rather a very massive, almost monolithic mix of pepper, orange marmalade and cigar ashes. Absolutely huge and, obviously, not very complex. So far?... With water: a lot of salt now, salted fudge, kumquats, pepper… Excellent and, indeed, more complex although this is no lace, obviously
timer Finish
very long, with more pepper and more dried figs. Salty aftertaste, with a lingering peat – as they say
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