Laphroaig 1990 Highgrove House

Laphroaig 10 Year Old

_This is an abbreviated version of an entry I'll be posting on my blog tomorrow_ I've long been a fan of Laphroaig, yet I often take it for granted. In a bid to try every whisky under the sun, I sometimes forget to go back to what I know and love. I was fortunate that a very good friend of mine gifted me this bottle of Laphroaig 10 which he...

Score 91/100

Laphroaig 14 Year Old 1998 Blackadder Raw Cask

Raw Cask means cask sediment, those ugly little black bits in your glass. I do not care much for those, I admit. Seems more like a gimmick, since the whisky is filtered, despite appearances. If it were not, it would contain splinters and such as well, no? Anyway, this very pale Laffie was bottled by Blackadder. It smells rather antiseptic, but not...

Score 80/100

Laphroaig Triple Wood

I bought this bottle of Triple Wood and opened on October 13th of 2011. I have tasted it, taking notes, on 11/11/11 (83), May of 2012 (84), and July of 2013 (83.5). Over two years now I have noticed very little change in this bottle. If anything it has slightly improved . . . but not in a way to boost my rating of the bottle. Nose: Much sweeter...

Score 84/100

Laphroaig Quarter Cask

This was an overproof so I put a little water in it. It was on sale ($4 off) up here in Northwestern Ontario so I got the bottle for $65.95 and the 48 percentage seemed like a selling point over the regular 40. I love overproofs and I was willing to try this out specifically because it is supposed to be 'peaty'. Nose: Very musky and woody, it...

Score 90/100