Laphroaig PX Cask

Sweet and tasty! It’s also impossible to find, unless you’re in an airport (or have a friend traveling through one with Duty Free)!

I was looking for a bottle of Laphroaig for a while, since it was one of the first whiskies I had, but I couldn’t decide on one. I liked the Brodir but not enough to get a bottle myself. I heard the glorifications of the Cairdeas Port Wood but that one is impossible to get now. So I impulsively went for this one as a final pick from a (these days) rare visits at my local whisky store. The nose screams Laphroaig from all directions but very deep at the base is a dark juicy rich syrupy sherry layer that protrudes through it like a beskar spear. Around is the iodine and brine like on a cold Islay day after a storm. Just as wild and raw. On the palate Islay peat with salt, old wet wood and sour grapes. Then after the cold ash, the PX makes its way through and covers the whole mouth with delicious sherry notes that swing back and forth against the raw fire smoke and steamy charcoal. What an exiting whisky. It isn’t as deep and rich as I hoped it would be but if you give it time it is hard to find anything else that you don’t like. It is raw, wild, untamed, interesting, strong, characteristic, honest, a little playful and very Islay.