Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Rich amber-gold; full-bodied appearance
Nose
Three-stage maturation creates layered complexity — bourbon vanilla and coconut, then amplified oak spice from quarter casks, then dark fruit and sherry sweetness from oloroso. Medicinal peat and iodine weave through all layers. Cinnamon and nutmeg spice
Palate
Full-bodied and spicy. Medicinal peat meets dark sherry fruit (raisin, fig), vanilla, coconut, and a pronounced oak spice (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg) from the quarter cask stage. Dark chocolate, espresso, and maritime salt. More oak-driven than other Laphroaigs
Finish
Long, spicy finish. Oak spice, dark fruit, peat smoke, and maritime salt. The quarter cask amplifies the wood influence, giving a drier, spicier character than the standard 10yo. Discontinued in some markets but still available in others
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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