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Whisky Tasting Notes

Lagavulin 16 Year Nose: is strolling alone on a loose shingle beach with the cold grey water running through your toes. The sea lazily dragging ethereal seaweed as it laps up the shore, spraying over your Arran sweater in excitable bursts.

Lagavulin 16 Year Taste: is lighting the last coveted cigarette, looking across the lilac skies, absorbing the hot smoke and cool salty air; then, reaching for your flask of exotic Lapsang Souchong that you made too sweet.

Lagavulin 16 Year Finish: is the trails of tobacco unfurling through your chest while your mouth is left with a thick, oily residue, depositing dried dates and figs, and a hazy memory of some sherry you couldn’t pronounce in mainland Spain.

Flavour 10/10    Value 9/10

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Whisky Tasting Notes

Laphroaig Tripple Wood Nose: Surprisingly slow start, but apricots gently burning over a peat fire waft over and hang in the air. There’s a tangible briny butteriness – the smell alone tightens the arteries.

Laphroaig Tripple Wood Taste: After a moment of serenity – the calm before the storm – an unctuous grenade of medicine heavily seasoned with earthy spices detonates. There’s plenty of peat as expected, but a sodden grassiness which is impressively smooth. Burnt sugar and quality sherry rush in to lift the spirits, as you recall chewing liquorice laces while still in shorts.

Laphroaig Tripple Wood Finish: The whisky runs and runs; as the sherry breaks on the salty shoreline of the palate, the residual peat remains all evening. It all settles with a surprisingly complex balance of iodine, smoke and charred caramel. For me, there’s not quite enough sweetness to cover the sense of burning tires.

Flavour 8/10   Value 8/10

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