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Laphroaig Triple Wood Single Malt Scotch
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Laphroaig Triple Wood Single Malt Scotch
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SKU:
Sin12837
Size: 750ml
Units in Stock: 40 Triple Cask Matured, Non-Chill Filtered Single Malt 48proof. The most richly flavored of the Laphroaig line. More details...List Price: $75.00 Price: $63.98 |
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Product Details
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Laphroaig Triple Wood Single Malt Scotch
"94 Laphroaig Triple Wood, 48%-
This is the first time I’ve been up for reviews here so I had a game plan: play it cool, mark tightly, let everyone know I’m hard to please. Then they gave me this, the whisky equivalent to front row tickets to Neil Young on his current Twisted Road tour: not just a chance to get up close and personal with an old favorite, but to do so with an old favorite who’s on fire. Laphroaig’s owners are intent on ensuring a big peaty engine for any new release, but this is a monster by anyone’s standards. It’s essentially Quarter Cask finished in oloroso sherry casks, so in addition to the intense charcoal smoke attack there are rich fruity notes; blackcurrant and berries. It’s an evening barbecue whisky. Grill that fish until it’s blackened and crispy, drizzle on lemon, and as the smoke rears up in protest, sip this. Big, moody, broody, fruity, and rich: what’s not to love?" (Travel Retail and some European specialist retailers.) – (Dominic Roskrow)
(Vol. 19, #3) Reviewed by: John Hansell
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Laphroaig Triple Wood Single Malt Scotch, aged in Bourbon, Quarter Cask and Sherry Oak Barrels! This expression of our famous whisky, from the remote island of Islay in the Western Isles of Scotland, has enjoyed a triple maturation in 3 types of cask. Just as with our standard Quarter Cask expression, the first maturation is in American oak, ex-bourbon barrels. We then select the most suitable of these barrels, containing a range of different aged spirit and transfer into small 19th century style Quarter Casks for a second maturation. The final maturation is in specially selected, large European oak, Oloroso sherry casks. At 48%, straight from the bottle, the initial flavour is quite sweet with a gentle mixture of sweet raisins and creamy apricots with just a trace of the dry peat smoke at the back, the smoother nutty flavours combine all these flavours into one smooth, syrupy whole. With a touch of water the peat smoke comes to the fore and masks the gentler fruitier notes. Even with the maturation being carried out in 1st fill bourbons, quarter casks and sherry butts, the intense bonfire ash smell of the earthy peat cannot be masked
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