Laphroaig Cask Strength

Name: Laphroaig Cask Strength
Brand: Laphroaig
SKU: 9102
Rating: 89.1 (288 reviews)

Overall rating: 89.10/100
votes: 288

Whiskybase ID: WB9102
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Laphroaig
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Batch #001
Bottled: 02.2009
Stated Age: 10 years old
Strength: 57.8 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 750 ml
Bottle code: L9 041
Barcode: 5010019637048
Added on: 05 Jun 2009 4:15 pm

Average value

€ 523.51

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Whisky Reviews for Laphroaig Cask Strength

26 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 89.10 points

sagara-kun scored this whisky 88 points
28 Jun 2020 10:02 pm
Very nice laph. A hair below the redstripe.
Water does him a lot of good.

Nose

88 88

Very nice pile of peat.
Oily smoke, peat, ashtray, barbecue. Cold ash.
Smoked bacon.
Slight spray. A little plant in retrolfaction. Dry grass, artichoke.

With water it's much better. A touch of exoticism. Mainly pineapple.

Taste

89 89

In the mouth we continue on dry grass, artichoke, asparagus.
Oily peat, cold ash, smoke. Camphor.
Pepper, liquorice.
With pear and green apple water.

Finish

88 88

Long finish on camphor, oily peat, medicinal.
MaltHaus scored this whisky 90 points
18 Jul 2021 12:06 pm
Fabulously complex and very busy. This is a very confidence malt, the one that you cannot simply take away the beauty of the earlier years. Bravo!

Nose

90 90

A very huge pile of PEAT catapulted into your face! And then someone ignited it with IODINE, setting up the fire using COAL that burnt into ASHES with a splash of SEA SALT, inhaling you with the SMOKE before you even realised. With water: vanilla, thicken smoke, leather polish, Manuka honey, beeswax, black pepper and tobacco. It is like driving a convertible car along A846, a road trip of The Sound of Islay.

Taste

90 90

Honeyed malt welcomes you with a huge smile on his face. Engulfing smoked fish, sea salted bacon, barbecued ham, deep fried anchovies, engine oil and maple syrup dipped toasted garlic. With water: rain dripped pebbles, very earthy, toasted marshmallow on top of the intense dark chocolate with a splash of cinnamon powder. A late night supper sip beside the fire burning chimney during raining days of Islay.

Finish

89 89

Sweet and salty, elegant and sophisticated, peat and smoke, spices and dark fruits, firm and complex. A harmonious orchestrated masterpiece playing inside an empty philharmonic hall. Well done!
vlad78 scored this whisky 89 points
20 Jun 2021 12:57 pm
It will be interesting to try all the batches, I hope I will succeed.

Nose

89 89

Recognizable smoked melon. Mackerel, warm industrial smoke, sweet fruit tones.

Taste

88 88

Sweet, very smoky, the taste of unripe melon. With water, the smell is sweeter, the taste is worse.

Finish

89 89

Long, sweet, smoky, bright.
Stanzeflasche scored this whisky 89 points
12 Sep 2020 2:31 am
What an intensity of smoke and nails. You would think you were at the junkyard. Quite a lot of coarse salt but not too much iodine. The peat rises. Soot, coal, lignite, it lines the nostrils. Really nice balance, it's extremely smooth despite the atypical aromas. Fine touch of vanilla. Smoke again, thick, dizzying. Asphalt still fresh. On hot days, when it seems to be melting. With that, a little earth and holly. Pungent heather. Oak leaves, acorns. And the smoke comes back again, it's endless.
In the mouth, motor oil, peat, strong spices. Apricot juice, fuel oil, pebbles, coke. Stretto coffee and very dark chocolate. Not immensely long but very earthy finish, cola, sage, cranberry, liquorice. A little dry wood. Guérande salt, fresh from the marsh.

https://ilikesky2020.blogspot.com/2020/09/laphroaig-10-yo-cask-strength-batch-001.html

Nose

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Taste

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Finish

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Teresa scored this whisky 90 points
06 Jun 2020 3:24 pm
Nose

89 89

Taste

91 91

Finish

89 89
detachedblue scored this whisky 89 points
16 Mar 2020 12:41 am
Nose

Huge banana, some new oaks, the peat is not as pungent as today's version, quite integrated, some coconut oil.

Taste

New oak, very sweet, banana cake, purity!

Finish

A lot of tar, huge smoke, still some new oak.
mema82 scored this whisky 92 points
05 Mar 2020 12:39 pm
Nose

90 90

Taste

93 93

Finish

92 92
Kensay scored this whisky 88 points
14 Dec 2019 11:03 pm
A powerful and rather specific release compared to later ones that I managed to try earlier, expected more in the body and finish

Nose

Attic dust, dressing bandages, medicines, iodine, shoe polish and polish, tobacco. Saturated and bright. later, more classical notes of Laphroaig, sweet smoke and peat appear

Taste

Black pepper oil and wood

Finish

burnt black pepper, light smoke and wood
WhiskyLovingPianist scored this whisky 88 points
29 May 2019 10:30 pm

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/feis-ile-2018-laphroaig/

At the bar we were able to acquire [at some expense], batches 1 & 2 for comparison against the Red Stripe. This is one fine Open Day.

N: “Hello, is there anything there?” From the original batch to batch 001, we have skipped a generation and entered a more mechanised & standardised world. Here the cask talks as does its previous contents. I note fruity mineral & curried notes, leather and beeswax. The peat smoke is very discrete, no big bonfire action here.
T: A dunnage-ish honeyed & malty whisky with some fruity action. It’s slightly more medicinal neat and with more complexity.
F: Drying, but this isn’t hollow. There’s body & chew, balance with varied complexity.
C: Resolute, firm and tasty if a tad predictable after the original Red Stripe. A more modern-classic Laphroaig then.
besar scored this whisky 91 points
20 May 2019 9:53 am
Nose

90 90

Taste

91 91

Finish

91 91

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