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Laphroaig
Quarter Cask Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Islay Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 48%
92 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$59.99

Laphroaig
Quarter Cask Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Islay Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 48%
Golden amber color. Aromas of whole peppercorns, dried orange peel, caramel, bergamot, and iodine with a silky, vibrant, dryish medium body and a warming, appealing, long black toast, butter, sea spray, and shitake mushrooms finish. A spicy, dry Islay single malt with great structure.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Rich
Aroma Aroma: whole peppercorns, dried orange peel, caramel, bergamot, and iodine
Taste Flavor: black toast, butter, sea spray, and shitake mushrooms
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, on the rocks and neat
Cocktail Cocktails: Rusty Nail, Rob Roy, Blood & Sand
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A spicy, dry Islay single malt with great structure.
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Islay Single Malt Scotch

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Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
About
Islay Single Malt Scotch
Islay is an island off the west coast. Traditional Islay malt whiskies are intensely smoky and pungent in character with a distinctive iodine or medicinal tang that is said to come from sea salt permeating the local peat that is used to dry the barley malt.

Laphroaig Quarter Cask Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky rating was calculated by to be 92 points out of 100 on 7/29/2019. Please note that MSRP may have changed since the date of our review.