Laphroaig 27 yo The Single Malts of Scotland Director's Special

 

 

 

51,2°

Distillery : Laphroaig - Islay

1st Fill Bourbon Barrel

Independent Bottling 

By Elixir Distillers

Limited Edition 

Single Cask 

Bottled in 2024

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength

Peated around 43 ppm 

This Director's Special series was launched in 2017 and brings together the very best of Elixir Distillers. Only bottlings over 20 years old, often from rare or closed distilleries. Here we have a 27-year-old Laphroaig, matured in a first-fill Single Bourbon Barrel, which yielded 210 bottles. Surprisingly, the year of distillation is not specified, but logically it should be 1996 or 1997.

Let's Taste It : 

Beautiful, greasy and full of petroleum peat, suspicious smoke with notes of coal and detergent. More elegant than a young Laphroaig, but just as subversive. Then there's pulpy, mellow, juicy fruits, lemon and pineapple, vanilla and papaya, a hint of clementine. On the palate, the fruit is still there, carefully combined with a noble, slightly burnt woodiness. Aniseed, almonds, sultanas, a trail of coarse sea salt, discreet spices, blond tobacco, cut hay, tar. Lovely, long finish, full of soot and heavy earth, dried apricots, melon, bark, eucalyptus.

In Short, 

It's wonderful, but I didn't feel the usual medicinal touch. Even at this age, Laphroaig is full of peat and thick smoke, there's just a little extra fruit. The downside is that age is not so noticeable, at least not here. The price, on the other hand, is hard to swallow.

Score : 90

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