LAPHROAIG QA CASK 1 LITRE
Distillery LAPHROAIG
Strength 40%%
Bottle Size 1 Litre
World of Whiskies Price: £46.99
Tasting Notes
The colour of sparkling gold with a nose of burning peat fire with warm vanilla and hints of orange rose petals. Light bodies but with a palate of intense peat followed by ash from the fireplace with liquorice root and fresh black pepper leaving a clean palate with a hint of lingering peat smoke.
Charles
MacLean’s Tasting notes: Summer gold in colour. A spicy nose, with vanilla and seaweed, planed oak, iodine and tarred hessian rope – backed by peat smoke. The taste is very sweet to start, with traces of salt and vinegar, and tarry smoke in the finish.
Something old, something new
It’s rare for Scottish distilleries to use new rather than re-fill casks. So with Laphroaig QA Cask – a bottling exclusive to Duty Free stores – you’re in for an uncommonly fine treat. With ‘QA’ signifying for Quercus alba (white oak), the name acknowledges that this whisky has been re-racked from ex-Bourbon into fresh American oak casks for the final months of its maturation. As the active tannins and compounds in new wood can quickly dominate, the duration of this final part of the process is critical. But it’s one Laphroiag has perfected; adding an extra flavour dimension of vanilla and spice to their famously robust spirit.
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