Douglas Laing Laphroaig 17 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 50 by Martine Nouet and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Martine Nouet Nose Sharp, slightly spirity. A fresh marine breeze but no expected medicinal notes. Rather turfy. Palate Starts sweet then fizzy and tickling. Getting peatier on smoked spices, burnt caramel. Finish Dry, fizzy, spicy. Smoked nuts. Comment 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.

Dave Broom Nose ‘Plain’ charred nose. Phenolics are reminiscent of dry lumps of tar on the beach, some TCP. Malty still, toasted oak and roasted malt, in time marzipan. Palate Sweet. Amaretti biscuit. Smoke hangs like a cloud, makes its boldest statement on the finish Finish Malty, crisp, some smoke. Comment A-typical, though not really when you think of the old OB 15yo. Where has the peat gone? Its not been overwhelmed by oak.