Old Malt Cask Laphroaig 16 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 39 by Gavin Smith and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Gavin Smith Nose Lots of smoke, molasses, coal-tar soap. Very focused. Palate Increasingly dry. Bladderwrack and machine oil. Finish Smoke and oak plus brine, but also sweeter notes trying to come through. Comment Good all-round Laphroaig. Sound stuff.

Dave Broom Nose Peat reek and deck oil, toasty oak, then a sweet cereal: Sugar Puffs. Fruit, dried orange peel. Begins to dry and smoke: wet canvas, iodine. Palate Supple with a sweet, generous mid palate balanced by crisp malt/oak. Smoke on the back palate: tar, peppered mackerel, light salt. Finish Lightly oily. Liquorice and smoke. Comment Good balance between sweet/soft and dry/peat.