Douglas Laing Old & Rare Platinum Selection.

We don't see many twenty something sherry matured Laphroaig bottlings - this one from indy' bottlers Douglas Laing is sure to be a winner.

Single sherry butt distilled March 1989 and bottled March 2011. 207 numbered bottles.

Laphroaig

Laphroaig Distillery was established in 1815 on the rocky south coast of the Isle of Islay off the west coast of Scotland. Laphroaig is a malt whisky distillery which continues to malt barley using its traditional malting floors and malt kiln. In 1994 Laphroaig was awarded the Royal Warrant. Visitors are welcomed at the Laphroaig Distillery visitor centre where distillery tours are available. Laphroaig Distillery participates in Feis Ile, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music. 

Fragrant, perfumed, and big in a sweet (lightly fruited) and barley style all warming to later suggestions of tar and cinders on the nose.  On the palate much more tar is apparent – with chimney soot, barley sweetness and creosote all to the fore.   The finish is long, medicated, with peat and more of that same ashy, tarry and creosoted character.