Laphroaig – Celebrates 200 Years Young
So myself and Jimbo think it’s only right that we raise a glass this afternoon and wish Laphroaig and everyone who has had a hand in creating the dram over the last 200 years a very Happy Birthday.
We are gonna celebrate with a 10yo standard distillery bottling and also 14yo SMWS 29.161 (A bodega is burning) from a re-fill sherry butt 60.4% vol, distilled 14th April 2000, 1 of only 494.
10yo Laphroaig
nose: Honey fried seaweed, smoking hearth, tar like caramel and a barbecue just outside the hospitals main ward
finish: Never ending phenolic sweet, salty, peaty beautifulness
29.161 A bodega is burning
nose: neoprene, smoky ale, beeswax, dried sherry soaked Christmas fruits, cold tar, gentle chimney smoke, carbolic pink soap
taste: brazil nuts soaked in sherry, hot powdered ash, bicycle tyre inner tube, road tar. mixed grill barbecue with langoustines
finish: forever, and ever happily ever after – have another!
(see us here having a Friday afternoon dram, celebrating Laphroaig’s Happy Birthday day)