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Laphroaig 30 Year Old

Scotch Single Malt Islay
Age
30 years
ABV
46.7%
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Deep mahogany with reddish copper tones; heavy, slow legs indicating age and concentration
Nose
Transcendent. The peat smoke has become entirely ethereal — like incense in an old stone church. Ancient leather, beeswax polish, dried flowers, fig preserve, dark chocolate truffle, and a deeply mineral maritime quality. The medicinal notes have transformed into something closer to herbal/apothecary — dried herbs, eucalyptus, camphor
Palate
Silky and profound. Three decades have transmuted aggressive peat into something spiritual. Old incense smoke, dark fruit preserve, blackberry, Christmas cake, ancient oak, walnuts, dark honey, espresso, and a mineral-salt coastal thread. The mouthfeel is extraordinarily velvety. Every sip reveals new dimensions
Finish
Almost endless finish — measured in quarter-hours, not minutes. Incense smoke, old leather, dried fruit, dark chocolate, and maritime minerality that refuses to fade. The final notes are beeswax, dried heather, and distant sea spray. Among the most contemplative Scotch whiskies ever bottled

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Ex-bourbon barrels
  • finished in oloroso sherry casks

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