Laphroaig 1981 27 Year Old Sherry Cask
$6,450.00
70cl / 56.6%
Description
Laphroaig 1981 27 Year Old Sherry Cask
70cl / 56.6%
A second batch of 27 year-old sherried Laphroaig, this time from 1981. Bottled from just five Oloroso sherry butts – the same as 2007’s 1980 vintage which won the top prize at the Malt Maniac Awards.
Colour: straw – white wine. Nose: this one starts rather discretely but gets then very maritime, with very nice notes of fresh seashells (fresh clams, oysters) and wet kelp before we get nice whiffs of fresh almonds and candle wax, and then something quite farmy (hay, horse dung, dampened grains). It does need quite some time to develop but gets then very, very elegant and rather complex. Superb notes of old pu-erh tea and genuine ale. Laphroaig 1981 27 Year Old Sherry Cask
Mouth: very typically Laphroaig although the attack is maybe a little shy again. We have then quite some pepper, almond milk, cereals, kilned malt that you crunch right at the distillery, wax, smoked tea, grapefruit juice… Probably less sweet than the OB’s and more austere – I like that.
The finish isn’t too long but perfectly smoky and balance. The whole being very close to what you can smell and taste right there, when you’re touring the distillery. In short, a very elegant and well bred Laphroaig. Almost as elegant as Abbey Lincoln singing ‘The nearness of you’ with just the great Hank Jones. On the piano (on ‘When There Is Love’). Ah, yes, by the way, I’ll try to add a musical comment to some of my tasting notes again from now on, just like I did a few years ago – I hope you won’t mind ;-).
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