Is your Laphroaig 10 YO 40% or 43% ABV????

[Lawrence]

I received a bottle of Laphroaig 10 for Christmas and it's 43% ABV and was purchased in the USA.

In Canada all the Laphroaig 10 I've seen has all been 40% ABV.

Why the difference and is there a taste difference????

Please let me know what ABV your Laphroaig 10 is and what country you bought it in. It might prove interesting.

[EdipisReks]

mine is 43%, bought in northern Kentucky.

[Oliver]

In the US its 43%. I think in Europe its 40% as a standard...
I think it harks back to a EEC directive. I know that's behind the 70 cl bottles in Europe before that it was variable....
In the US its 75cl and 43% -- it can't be all bad living here!....

As far as taste is concerned I think the higher proof in this case means less water addded and more actual malt whisky in the bottle -- I'll take 43 over 40 volume -- everything else being equal -- any day of the week, Lawrence!

[Mr Fjeld]

In Norway they sell the 40% version.

[Deactivated Member]

Is there a direct correlation between 40% and 70cl? (Funny, you might think the larger bottles would have been stretched a wee bit....)

[Nock]

I had a 750mL bottle at 43% which I purchased in the US.

After that bottle was finished I picked up a 1 Litre bottle at the Duty Free coming back from a trip to Vancouver B.C. in August and it is 40%

I did a tasting with the 43% bottle against an Ardbeg 10yo and a Lagavulin 16yo. The Laphraoig 43% came out on the bottom.

I remember opening the 1 Litre bottle and really liking it for the first week or so. Then it went on the shelf for a few months. It has now been open for 5 months and I am not as fond of it as I was. The finish has really developed some bitter notes.

That is my experience

Nock

[Deactivated Member]

I had a bottle of 10yo that I bought at a duty-free entering Canada, and quite illegally brought back to the US--1.14l at 43%. So if you want the 43%, Lawrence, get one on your way back into Canada next time you get married.

(The contraband bottle was gifted to Bobby, so customs officers should visit him, not me.)

[laphroaig10_65]

I confirm also in Italy 40% 70 cl.
Bye
Luca

[Reggaeblues]

Had a Laphroaig in a bar in Queensland Oz in September. Tasted so good i asked to see the bottle. Sure enough it was 43%.

Maybe it was because it was the only bottle of malt for miles around...and I drank 2 generous drams of it every night for a week, but it really was everything one could expect from a 10 YO Laphroaoig...better than I can remember of late, and punchier and rounder than the 10 YO 40% i was given for Christmas.

Here in UK 40 is standard.

[duckmcf]

Had a Laphroaig in a bar in Queensland Oz in September. Tasted so good i asked to see the bottle. Sure enough it was 43%.

Yep, and I can also confirm that the bottles available in Australia are 43% and are the European size of 700ml (70cl).

[Muskrat Portage]

Lawrence:
Just like you, 40% in Ontario, Mr T must have gotten his out East.

Peter

[Deactivated Member]

Lawrence:
Just like you, 40% in Ontario, Mr T must have gotten his out East.

Peter

I believe it was at the Thousand Islands crossing. Anyway, it was a duty-free only bottling on the US side, supplied by the powers that be in the state of old New York ("my home away from home!"), being 1.14l.