Elements of Islay LP1 58.8%
Bourbon/ Tasted: Sept 2014
A fresh, pungent and medicinal nose with hints of Islay vegetation, fleshy apricot and tobacco. Superb intensity with Laphroaig at it’s stinkiest and manuriest!
The palate is intense, smoky and medicinal. There is plenty of soft apricot and citrus to balance. Long, with a mouth-watering, grassy, reedy finish.
With water the nose becomes a little soapy and it emphasises the ferny herbs and manure. On the palate it brings out the citrus fruit rather well. The smoke has become gentler and it allows the gorgeous, slightly sweet barley to put in an appearance.
Elements of Islay LP5 52.4%
Bourbon/ Tasted: Sept 2014
The nose is fuller than LP1 and showing a lot more oak. Milky and barley sweet with a touch of smoke and medicinal notes.
The palate is smokier than the nose suggests and again it has a liberal dollop of creamy oak and sweet barley. Good length with a biting salty finish and lingering medicinal notes.
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