Only 157 bottles from this bourbon hogshead, does that imply it's coming from a shared cask? Maybe, maybe not, hard to know as it lacks a cask number, or reference as some call it. I've earlier given much praise to german bottler Whisky-Doris, as though being a smaller IB seem to source great whisky and sell it at very fair prices. I've had many 1998 Laphroaigs, but this is just my second or third 2000, more modern, more fun? The color is white wine. It smells hay, turmeric, ginger, salt, ketchup, sweet vinegar, salmi, an utmost mild and gentle Laphroaig at this strength. How weird... The taste is wheat, leather, peat smoke, spices like cinnamon and cloves, drying, not much influence from either peat nor cask. I rarely justify adding water to young peated whisky, but this time I will. With water. Now it turns more fruity, some vanilla and apple cores, but still its quite dominated by this dry leather/hay sensation. The finish is cardboard and peppercorns.
A Laphroaig with non/little peat is no Laphroaig: 4
Next tasting: Caol Ila Distillery
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