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Whisky Magazine Issue 101

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Laphroaig

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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%
0 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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Laphroaig Bessie's legacy
Laphroaig Distillery has released the oldest whisky it has ever bottled, the very limited edition 1960 Vintage Reserve laid down by the legendary Bessie Williamson. Bessie, one of the foremost lady ...

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Thirst for knowledge
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On the edge of the world (Laphroaig)
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A week in paradise
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Hung, drawn... and quartered?
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At heaven's gate
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Whisky pioneer
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Charles Monarch of the dram (Prince of Wales)
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Iain Henderson: a life less ordinary
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