Laphroaig Oak Select
The Tasting Notes
Forward peat smoke followed quickly by ripe red fruits.
Sweet at first, followed by peat smoke and dashes of ash and seaweed.
Long finish with lingering floral notes. Touches of marzipan and lime.
Details
It’s only fitting that the perfect introduction to peated whisky draws from a broad range of casks in their storehouse. Sweet and smooth, Laphroaig Select tells their two hundred year history of passionate distilling in every dram. To create the Laphroaig Select blend, their Master Distiller hand-selected whiskies aged in Oloroso sherry butts, first-fill ex-Bourbon quarter casks and Pedro Ximenez sherry hogsheads at different levels of maturation. Finished in virgin American oak barrels – a rare wood source for Scotch whisky. Their most laid-back expression lets their signature flavours of medicinal peat smoke and seaweed shine, leaving plenty of room for notes of red fruit, lime and a floral finish.
Tasting notes:
Colour: Sparkling gold appearance with layered tones.
Nose: Forward peat smoke followed quickly by ripe red fruits.
Palate: Sweet at first, followed by peat smoke and dashes of ash and seaweed.
Finish: Long finish with lingering floral notes. Touches of marzipan and lime.
Maturation: A blend of whiskies aged in Oloroso sherry butts, Pedro Ximenez hogsheads and ex-Bourbon casks, finished in new American oak barrel
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