Laphroaig PX Cask

Nose: Mild smoke, chocolate, plums, salt Palate: Smoke, brine, plums Finish: Chocolate, smoke, oak Nice sherried Laphroaig.

Great duty free travel exclusive whiskey. Peaty, salty and campfire heavy with dried fruits, toffee, and dark chocolate all coming through at the end, to round it out.

Laphroaig PX Cask  48% Triple Matured Travel Retail Only Laphroaig PX Cask is a travel retail only bottle but you can easily find it online in auctions for a pretty fair price.  It’s really not much different than their Cairdeas line of wine finishes but this one happens to be triple matured which means it’s kinda like the Triple Wood but with a PX finish. Smell - very nice - sweet, peat, raisins, fruit cake, fresh dark red fruits, brine/salt, medicinal.  It’s the usual Laphroaig scents with the added holiday dark red fruits and fruit cake. Taste - first thing is a blast of sweet flint/ash but quickly goes to the think oil seaweed blast you expect in Laphroaig.  Adding some water completely removes the ash and provides the dark red fruits.  Campfire, peat, smoke, oil, brine, raisins/fig/dates.  It is what I would expect a holiday fruitcake to taste like if it were made with Laphroaig.   Finish - Brine/Seaweed, Medicinal...more of a standard Laphroaig finish but still have some of the bitter red fruit and the initial blast of ash comes back.  Good or bad depending on your mood I suppose. I don’t know the details of the other 2 casks of the 3 cask maturation  but the PX certainly comes through.  I find this to be really interesting but not something I would approach on a daily basis. It is not one of my favorite Laphroaig’s.  I would still take the Laphroaig 10 CS over this any day of the week but considering you can get this from auction at prices much less than the Cairdeas bottlings AND it is a 1L bottle.  It's worth a punt of your a Laphroaig fan.   Overall Grade: B-