Laphroaig 10 Year Old
Distillery: LaphroaigStyle: Single Malt
Release: Unspecified
Age: 10 Years
Alcohol: 40% abv.
Region: Scotland: Islay
Bottled For: Distillery
Laphroaig 10 Year Old is an all-malt Scotch Whisky from the remote island of Islay in the Western Isles of Scotland. Laphroaig, pronounced "La-froyg", is a Gaelic word meaning "the beautiful hollow by the broad bay".
Color: golden amber
Nose: Heavy peat.
Body: Medium-bodied.
Palate: Peat. Peat. Peat.
Finish: A nice long, enjoyable phenolic phinish!
Search the archives of "The Atlantic Monthly" for a very nice article by Corby Kummer some years ago. He went through the distilleries of Islay, and described the Laphoaig 10-year very nicely.
Color: amber gold
Nose: iodine, peat smoke, sea spray, antiseptic
Body: soft, dry, tangy
Palate: strong! explodes in the mouth, not too dry, cedar, cigar smoke, salt, palm leaves, anise
Finish: med and clean, mettalic, smoke lingers good and long, finally antiseptic
Like the afterglow of a fine cigar, you know you have indulged in a smoky pleasure for some time.
Color: Straw gold
Nose: Faint leather, peat, smoke, hint of cumin, grapefruit. Chinese prawn crackers.
Body: Grainy and numbing. Like walking on the beach with sand between your toes.
Palate: Seaweed, cedar wood. Peat comes through strongly. Sweet and citrusy.
Finish: Lingers long. Miso soup with lots of dried seaweed.Cigars come through right at the end.
Japanese and Chinese food by the seaside. In days gone by you could smoke in restaurants here in the UK, but no more.
Color: Golden Amber
Nose: Heavy Medicinal, like walking into an Emergency Room. Then Sea weed, Smoke and Peat, I'am not talking a hint of this or a hint of that, These aromas knock you on your ASS.
Body: Medium on the Thin Side.
Palate: Sweet, Smoke, Salt and Peat, The taste of sea water like when you just swam in the ocean.
Finish: Medium, Soft, sweet Like those Butterscotch hard candies of years gone bye.
This was the 43% ABV... From medicinal to candy this one was good. One of the big boys, This one earns the title of one of the STRONGEST Tasting Single Malts Around. (My Wife loved the after taste of this one).
Color: Light Honey.
Nose: Fruity. Very soft with almost no burn full strength.
Body: Light. Wet.
Palate: It reminds me of pale malt. It's a sweet and light taste. There's also a bit of a bitterness to it, like eating a dandilion stalk. Probably peat, and lots of it. A little bit salty.
Finish: Comes on really strong but diminishes rapidly. Not warming.
Good for some quick excitement. Might not drink too much of it in one sitting though. Like salty food, best taken in small amounts.
Color: A new penny.
Nose: Complex and perfumy. Bitter citrus. Briney.
Body: Dry and burning. Thin.
Palate: Malt, Bitter citrus, Burnt toast.
Finish: Fast and clean. Warm.
Elegant and inoffensive.
Color: Yellow Peach
Nose: Immediate and very distinct peat. Iodine.
Body: Light and crisp. Very dry. Powerful flavours.
Palate: Strong peat with lots of alcohol burn. More than expected from a 40% whisky. Malt.
Finish: Warm and fast. Can burn the back of the throat. Very slightly sour at the end.
Laphroaig 10 is the whisky that made me a whisky drinker. I suspect it has had the same effect on many others. Many call it a love it or hate it malt, which perhaps makes it a poor choice as a first single malt, but i sure loved it. I consider it the purest definition of Islay.
Color: Dark amber
Nose: Peat, salt
Body: Full, salty, good kick
Palate: Salt, peaty
Finish: Long finish
Simply wonderful. Full bodied for a 10 year old scotch. A favorite