Berry's Own Selection Laphroaig 1998
Single Malt - Scotland - 59.50% 7 The smoke saves it - a more active cask would have elevated it.

Boisdale Islay (Laphroaig)
- Scotland - 46.00% 8 Ordered and enjoyable.

Chieftain's Choice Laphroaig 12 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 A good, clean Laphroaig. Not exceptional, but true to character.

Douglas Laing Laphroaig 15 Years Old, 1987
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 A lean and lively Laphroaig, more smoky than seaweedy. The flavours are long and persistent. Enjoyable, more-ish and appetising.

Douglas Laing Laphroaig 16 Years Old, Limburg Whisky Fair Bottling
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.10% 8 At first, I did not recognise this as a Laphroaig. Then I thought that age must have muted its attack, but 16 is scarcely venerable. Can a whisky be an old fogey?

Douglas Laing Laphroaig 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 3 An unusual Laphroaig. No trace of the medicinal character. Water brings out sweet malty notes and more smoke. Why such a difference? Cask influence? Different peating level in the malt? Puzzling.

Elements of Islay BR4
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.70% 7 Easy and refreshing. Probably young. It needs a small dash of water to cut the edges. An invigorating dram on a wintery day.

Elements of Islay BW1
Single Malt - Scotland - 52.90% 8 An intense, enticing and rather condensed whisky.

Elements of Islay Laphroaig Lp1
Single Malt - Scotland - 58.80% 8 This has an extra dimension and added energy. Beautiful balance.

Feis Isle 2006 Laphroaig 94
Single Malt - Scotland - 0.00% 8 The reserved nose is compensated by a lively, palate. Laphroaig is bang on form.

Laphroaig 10 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 The most medicinal of Islay malts. I love it.

Laphroaig 10 Years Old
- Scotland - 40.00% A peaty classic. Uncompromising yes, but great balance.

Laphroaig 10 Years Old, Cask Strength
Single Malt - Scotland - 57.30% 8 A fine robust dram with lots happening. Laphroaig at its best.

Laphroaig 10 Years Old, Cask Strength
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.70% 4 The tough guy. Medicine man? Muscular, solidly built. Dominated by camphor.

Laphroaig 15 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Lively. Full of flavours. Multi-faceted.

Laphroaig 17 Years Old, Feis Ile 2004, Cask Strength
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.20% 8 A touch sophisticated for the likes of me. Where are those stinging iodine notes? They are in there somewhere, but beautifully balanced and rounded.

Laphroaig 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 48.00% 8 Not the big phenolic guy but a very refreshing islander. Smoke is well integrated and the aromatic display is elegant.

Laphroaig 1960 Vintage Reserve
Single Malt - Scotland - 42.40% 8 There is something getting in the way. Woodiness?

Laphroaig 25 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 6 All the aromas are working against each other and it's incredibly muted. Why bottle this at 40%?

Laphroaig 25 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 56.30% 7 The key here is balance.

Laphroaig 27 Years Old Vintage 1980
Single Malt - Scotland - 51.00% 7 An acquired taste. Some will like it, but it's too woody and nothing on the 1974 bottling by la Maison du Whisky.

Laphroaig 30 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 3 Age acts as a melting pot. All the distinctive Laphroaig features are there but combined into oak. Interesting.

Laphroaig Quarter Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 48.00% 8 Seems to hesitate between sweetness and dryness. Give it time to open, you will not regret it.

Laphroaig Quarter Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 48.00% 3 Smokiness takes time to rise up. No medicinal contribution from the peat. Keeps on smoke.

Laphroaig Vintage, 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.30% 8 An excellent mix of the rich, the sweet and the smoky. Mouthfilling and complex.

Master of Malt Laphroaig 10 Years Old 1998
Single Malt - Scotland - 55.50% 8 The perfect image of the countryside in autumn on a wet chilly morning, with a mixture of fog and smoke hovering over the fields and the woods. Very suggestive.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 16 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 Good all-round Laphroaig. Sound stuff.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 17 Years Old, Rum Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 Confident. Slightly austere.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 18 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 7 This has balance. Like it.

Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 1985 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.00% 8 This seems far less lively and rounded than the 1987 whisky bottled in 1992.

Queen of the Moorlands Laphroaig, Rare Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 54.70% 8 A deft, attractive, dram.

Signatory Laphroaig 1988 Unchillfiltered
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 8 I enjoyed this very much, but it does not add a great deal to the canon.

Signatory Straight from the Cask Laphroaig 11 Years Old, Port Finish
Single Malt - Scotland - 60.00% 7 Intriguing, but a little too much imposed sweetness for my taste.