Laphroaig 20 Year Old - Double Cask - Buy Paris Duty Free - 2010 Release

INFORMATION

Laphroaig 20 Year Old. Double Cask. Bottled 2010. Exclusively hand selected by Laphroaig distillery manager, John Campbell & Philippe Lanusse of Buy Paris Duty Free. One of 750 bottles Matured in Hogshead Barrel & finished in Quarter Cask. 70cl. 46.6%.

DISTILLERY:Laphroaig

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:46.6%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:750

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Islay

BOTTLING DATE::2010

AGE:20

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.