Laphroaig SMWS 29.80

Single refill bourbon hogshead yielding 267 bottles. Distilled 1993.

"Wedding cake in a coal sack"

Laphroaig

On the rim of its own bay with its own wee pier, the tide washes right close to its own sea walls twice a day. Will be 200 years young in 2015, when there should be some right royal celebrations. An ocean going distillery with maltings and warehouses and its very own peat reek.

A stupendous complexity of sweet malt, Islay reek, Islay salt, all that is Islay, all that is the Scottish islands, that flows across the palate, that benefits from a chew and, finally rocks your own little foundations with a little blast of incredulity at the journey afforded by that little splash of gingery liquid.

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