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Laphroaig 1988 - 2002. 14 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society.Society cask number 29.25. Hot Plastic & Wood Shavings. One of 228 bottles. 70cl. 63.4%. 100.9 Proof. No box.
From the archives. "Hot plastic and wood shavings. Founded by Johnston brothers in 1815, the distillery remained in the family until it was passed into the ownership of the first ever woman to run a distillery in Scotland, so they say.
A barrel has coloured this dram a mid-gold with orange highlights and the first impression on the nose gives a surprising waft of apple sweetie fruitiness.
A woodshed complex of aromas quickly overtakes this: creosote, wood-glue, and some old pots of varnish and paint.
The taste is unusual but certainly Islay, with some coal tar soaps, hot pastic and iodine. Add a dash of water and the fruitiness returns, this time bruised apples on an orchard floor with wasps buzzing around.
This is mixed with more powerful Islay characteristics: iodine and coal tar soap again, swimming pool footbaths, wood shavings and again more creosote. Not a trade-mark example from this Kildalton big-boy, but will still appeal to those that enjoy the weird and wonderful world of Islay!"
The original price of this bottle in 2002 was £47.
An iconic southern Islay distillery, Laphroaig is the benchmark for heavily-peated smoky single malt whisky. The distillery has been Islay’s most successful single malt for many decades now, so much so that in 1908, following a commercial dispute, White Horse’s Peter Mackie famously tried to create a copy of Laphroaig at Lagavulin, leading to the birth of Malt Mill.
Today, the most revered and sought-after Laphroaigs at auction fall broadly into two camps: the old official bottlings of Laphroaig 10-year-old from the late 1960s-1980s; and the extraordinary independent bottlings of 1960s and early 1970s vintages by Gordon & MacPhail, Signatory, Cadenhead’s and the Italian bottlers Samaroli and Intertrade. The common denominator in these legendary bottlings is a remarkably fruity character alongside the phenolic bombast - sadly this fruitiness is no longer found in Laphroaig’s modern distillate.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has members rooms in Edinbrugh, Glasgow and London and a string of international partnerships serving its 40,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £320.00 | 13th May 2026 | 11:47 AM | |
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