Soba45
Laphroaig Brodir
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
March 11, 2018 (edited October 21, 2024)
Ah Laphroaig...even your not so great is good. Good official review on this. I have a problem whereby I can taste flavours but can't put my finger on what they are until I read flavour descriptors. Strawberry...of course now I read it it hits me. Lovely balanced drop. So light and smooth and smokey... with the trademark iodine bringing up the rear. Initially after the Millstone rye this was so faint but unlike some drams which hit you with flavour and drop off this goes the other way....slight on the initial hit then builds and builds to a lovely afterglow. Now the downside of reading other reviews for flavour guides is..well you get other things which come along for the ride and get implanted in your head. Yes that strawberry is getting quite sickly... would i have noticed without pre-reading....maybe...ok definitely it's way to sickly. Hmm $130...whaat! Do I go with first or last impressions? Ok 3.5.
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Also I gave it the benefit of the doubt as the higher ABV Millstone Rye I had prior blasted my taste buds a bit so the Laphroaig was very mild in comparison.
Ah the old Glendfiddich XX story again. I think unlike that I got the batch 2 this time. It was a weird one...I think I let my love of Laphroaig make it into something bigger than it was initially. At the end the strawberry aftertaste got to much. I think if I cracked my bottle of Lore or An Cuan open they would have smoked it!
@Soba45 there’s apparently a huge batch variation in this. Batch 001 was supposed to be stellar, while batch 002 quite dismal. Did you have 002?