Laphroaig 1998 20 Year Old The Kinship

Laphroaig 1998 20 Year Old The Kinship

(53 customer reviews)

$500.00

  • Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Hunter Laing

70cl / 55.2%

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Laphroaig 1998 20 Year Old The Kinship

  • Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Hunter Laing

70cl / 55.2%

This limited-edition release of 1998 Laphroaig from The Kinship series was bottled by Hunter Laing for the 2018 Feis Ile to celebrate the completion of Ardnahoe distillery. Aged in two refill hogsheads and bottled at cask strength, this single malt has tobacco, citrus and peat smoke aromas. The palate opens with rolls of peat and liquorice, before developing into softer notes of pine needles, tobacco, sweet vanilla and lemon.

Our friend Fabien’s own bottle from the distillery. Never miss that when you visit the distillery, it’s fun to fill your own wee bottle and of course, some unwanted overfilling, spillage and subsequent licking are almost requested. It would be rude not to do it! Colour: straw.

Nose: fresh bourbon or even virgin oak. A lot of vanilla, hints of coconut, and the gentlest hints of a medicinal and iodine-y Laphroaigness. In the style of Select, only ten times nicer. With water: a lot of old hessian.

Mouth (neat): a sweet, very bourbonised, bonbony, and yet very coastal Laphroaig. Coconuts abound, and so do passion fruit syrup and Cointreau again. With water: oysters sprinkled with vanilla essence and tangerine liqueur. How modern! Finish: medium, rounded, modern. Comments: really the modern side of Laphroaig. Some re-racking must have occurred. Laphroaig 1998 20 Year Old The Kinship

In theory, this should be stellar, but vorsicht, it may be heavily sherried (coffee and mustard, as we sometimes say). Colour: deep gold. Nose: phew! There is some oloroso, with old walnuts indeed, and even a little ham and mustard (sauce à la diable, we say), but that would just interpenetrate (what?) with the very smoky distillate. Absolutely wonderful notes of camphor, embrocations, cut agave, then game, seawater, shellfish, chartreuse, fennel, and a little engine oil again. Wow, as they say at Islay’s Got Talent.

With water: damp fabric and chalk. Always works. Looks like the water I’m using kind of offsets the sherry – good to know! (I’m ready to ship this particular water to you, price is 5,000€ a litre – while stocks last!) Mouth (neat): sumptuous, rich, pretty creamy, and just flawless. Mushrooms, walnuts, dried beef and cured ham, lemon marmalade, oysters, grapefruit juice, iodine, cough syrup, green pepper, turmeric, seawater and.. hey oh, have I mentioned walnuts? With water: indeed it takes water very well. Tobacco, soft leather, walnuts, black olives, seawater… Finish: long and very salty. Comments: have the excellent people at the Distillery ever issued a vintage 1998, beyond some hand-filled ones?

53 reviews for Laphroaig 1998 20 Year Old The Kinship

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