Laphroaig reviews

The interwebz is a wonderful place. Hang out in enough whisky-themed places (Connosr, Instagram, Facebook) and you start to develop a nice little network. Thus far, I feel like I’ve received far more…

This is basically the quarter cask with an additional rest time in refill sherry casks. I know many reviews panned this for being less brash and in your face than other Laphroaig's. Now that it's…

This is an abridged version of a blog entry I'm hoping to post tomorrowCare-dee-ass? Car-deez? Is that Portuguese? According to Laphroaig's Distillery Manager John Campbell, it's pronounced "car-chiss"…

Just wonderful!! Never would I think mellow would apply to Laphroaig, but to me it does to this expression. The nose is honey, mossy and peaty, with some light (as yet unidentifiable) undertones. The…

Triple Wood is an extension of Laphroaig Quarter Cask. Like Quarter Cask, Triple Wood is matured for 5-11 years in ex-bourbon American oak casks (Maker's Mark?) and is then transferred to smaller Amer…

It’s getting close to Passover, which means that soon I will have no access to my cabinet for 8 days, and there will be precious few chances to dram before the cabinet is sealed. It’s been a month since…

This review is for a sample graciously provided by @Nozinan.Batch 005, opened May 20, 2017, gassed after each use, 2/3 full when the sample was poured on Nov 5/2017Much like my review of Lagavulin 12,…

I was in the mood for some peat the other week and picked this up. I've had the quarter cask and the select cask, this is my first bottle of 10yo. This is bottled at 43%, I understand that in some less…

Nose: The nose is predominantly iodine, tar, vanilla, and smoke. After a few minutes you pick up the sherry, but it's very faint. It adds just a slight sweetness because there's really no way to mask the…

This hand-filled bottle was drawn directly from the cask at the distillery on April 12th, 2016. Distilled in 1998. Ex-Sherry Butt cask # 700039. Bottle # 212. While this is an exquisite dram, it is not…