Single Malt Cask Strength Batch No 014 10YO (((Bottled 2021)))
⏳ Drikkevindue
As a distilled spirit, this bottle does not mature further in glass and is ready to be enjoyed immediately. Unopened, it will preserve its exceptional character indefinitely. Once opened, it is best enjoyed within 1 to 3 years to experience its full aromatic complexity before gradual oxidation begins to soften its fiery cask-strength profile.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Fresh raw oysters, strong blue cheeses like Roquefort or Stilton, and slow-smoked barbecue beef brisket.
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Hailing from the rugged, wind-swept south coast of Islay, Laphroaig has been crafting its famously polarizing, deeply peated single malt Scotch whisky since 1815. The Cask Strength Batch 014, aged for 10 years in seasoned ex-bourbon barrels and bottled in 2021, represents the distillery's signature style in its most unadulterated form. Laphroaig's legendary character is defined by its hand-cut peat from the Glenmachrie peat moss, which imparts a unique medicinal, iodine-rich, and seaweed-forward smoke profile, balanced by the sweet vanilla and toasted oak notes of American white oak. Legend has it that during US Prohibition, Laphroaig was legally imported as a 'medicinal spirit' due to its intense, therapeutic iodine aroma—a testament to its uncompromising and historical character.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Laphroaig blev grundlagt i 1815 af brødrene Donald og Alexander Johnston på Islays rå sydkyst og står i dag som et af Skotlands mest markante og kompromisløse single malt-destillerier. Destilleriet ligger helt ude ved Atlanterhavets brænding nær Port Ellen, hvor det henter sit bløde, tørveholdige vand fra Kilbride Stream. Som et af de få steder bevarer man her traditionelle malterigulve til en del af byggen, som tørres over håndskåren Islay-tørv spækket med mos og maritim lyng. Gæringen og destillationen på asymmetriske kobber-pot stills frembringer et rådestillat med en umiskendelig karakter af medicinske noter, fenoler, jod og salt havluft. Hovedparten af modningen foregår på udvalgte ex-bourbonfade i kystnære dunnage-lagre, hvilket afrunder den intense røg med cremet vanilje, sødmefuld eg og moden frugtplantage. Ikoniske aftapninger som den klassiske 10 Year Old, Quarter Cask, de årlige Càirdeas-udgaver og den ærværdige 25 Year Old Cask Strength indkapsler på fornemste vis Islays rå natur og stolte destillationstraditioner.