Laphroaig Lore

Smokey with a bit of sherry fruit

Glass: Glencairn, rested 15 minutes. Color: Light Amber. Nose: Big notes of smoke and brine, with some strong oak notes beneath. Palate: Much more oak than the nose suggests, followed by the smoke and brine. Finish: The finish goes from oaky to smoke to briny, in that order, and lasts a surprisingly long time. Splash: No new flavors are revealed, but I could live in that finish. Overall: 9.5/10 - This is truly what an Islay should be. I can taste the island. A bit more complexity and this would be a 10/10. I received it as a gift, but will definitely buy.

Nose: Delightfully complex with manukau honey, espresso, dark chocolate, baking spices, malt, graham cracker, vanilla, light peat and smoke notes. Palate: It’s weighty, oily, semisweet and balanced. Manukau honey leads, closely followed by malt and vanilla. Other notes lurk in the background: Cocoa, baking spices, oak, smoky peat, smoked meat, dried dark fruits, and little bitterness Finish: Long, pleasant and smoky.

48%, Non-chill Filtered with added colour Nose: Smoke, Ashy, Seaweed, Sea Salt Mist and dark Salty Chocolate. Palate: A tamed medicinal Laphroaig peat smoke that turns ashy with bitter chocolate. Finish: a short drying finish that with a long lingering salted dark chocolate sweetness. Dark Golden colour, Oily and thick mouth feel. Tried it side by side with the Laphroaig 10 Year Sherry Cask. Both where lovely smokey whiskies, similar but different. Lore is more refined and less in your face, it has less sweetness and more bitter salty chocolate while the Sherry Oak is more in your face, but is still a softer Laphroaig then what I’m used to on the bourbon side. Meaty maple bacon and sweet smoky chocolate are a common theme with these. I love both and if I had to choose one, the Sherry oak being more then 100$ less would be my choice, I can see this one being a battle of ones individual tastes and how much their bank account can handle.

Peat monster that will catapult you to the coast of Scotland.