Tastes

Cantaloupe malt and some citrus notes with a slightly harsh black pepper on the pallet.

Fairly rich complex and round. The nose has some muted fruit salt tar and smoke. The pallet has slight fruit and sweetness with salt however the smoke is the real frontrunner. It encompasses peat iodine tar bandaid pepper with slight vegetal notes. Good but a little to scatterbrained for my constant supper.

The nose has slight banana paint thinner smoke salt hint of pepper and iodine on the pallet there is a cherry tang and good peat the is slightly bitter mild burn. Banana umami with seaweed pepper pear with char tuned up to 11. Also is reminiscent of ardbeg 10 with the caster sugar sweetness, light to medium salt. The heel left for a while still hits with burn but adds a drying chocolate finish.

This whisky highlights creamy cantaloupe, malt and bright sweetness. The pallet is sweet and complex with melon citrus strawberry pepper and tropical notes. Cream brûlé and a variety or sweetness adds to the overall pleasant dram.

The nose is predominantly peat to sweet melon with pepper and salt underneath. Not smooth and not harsh but in between. It has a slightly creamy mouthfeel with the nose present in the taste. Adding to the taste is slight lemon and bitter fruits that is reminiscent of cigar ash on the finish.

Slight salted nuts, vanilla, fruits and citrus/orange but mostly strong vegetal notes reminiscent of creamy avocado and latter in the bottle fresh hay with milk chocolate being the dominant force quickly followed buy delicious peat. Complex and Smokey yet carries a slight burn.

When first opening the bottle; dark fruits, peat and oak are predominant on the nose which create a very inviting dram. On the pallet the nose is to be found, but it shows it’s youth with a ethanol/spicy burn. While not off-putting or mellow the dark fruits are a substitute for a well aged whisky making it a rounded in your face scotch. During the last third of the bottle the fruits lessen and make way to mellow oak taste featuring; honey, butterscotch, allspice, Demerara sugar with a bitter after taste. However this is overplayed with peat which lessens the abrupt bitter end. Over all a great offering from Laphroaig that highlights dark fruits over smoothness.

Smokey caster sugar. The bottle starts off with peat and heather sweetness that is quite smooth. Some salt and earthy seaweed show underneath in the middle of the bottle. At the end an overall peat and smoke with a delicious sugar that is reminiscent of powdered sugar. So good clean and a long sugar finish that is only outlasted by peat.

Smoke peat and citrus in the early stages, the smoke is the dominant force rounded with an orange marmalade. Once you have gotten most of the way though the bottle the smoke takes a back seat turning the citrus into a brighter driving force. At the end of the bottle the taste and mouthfeel turns into chocolate making one Smokey chocolate orange.

When I first opened the bottle it tasted like a salty smokey mezcal. It opened up quite a bit but is still too salty IMHO. In the latter drams the sherry starts to show through. The nose starts with malt and cereal then leads into caramel with vegetal and mild to heavy salt it finishes with notes or dried fruits that lends a creaminess. The pallet starts with creamy caramel fruit and then smoke and salt, lingering vegetal note that fades back into dark fruits. Mild burn with a short to medium finish.