Single Malt Whisky
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The Islay Whisky
Browse to the Islay Whisky site to find out more about the Islay’s seven distilleries and its Lost Distilleries. Use the Islay Map to help you get around – or try Tourist Info if you are interested in making the pilgrimage. Though you may find it remarkable that an island only 25 miles long can support seven distilleries, at one time the island supported twenty one distilleries. The distilleries in the south of the island – Lagavulin, Ardbeg and Laphroaig – produce the most strongly flavoured, phenolic whiskies in Scotland. The distilleries to the north – Bunnahabhain, Bowmore, Caol Ila and Bruichladdich tend to be of a lighter character.
http://www.islaywhiskysociety.com/
About Laphroaig
Laphroaig 10 Year Old is an all-malt Scotch Whisky from the remote island of Islay in the Western Isles of Scotland. Laphroaig, pronounced “La-froyg”, is a Gaelic word meaning “the beautiful hollow by the broad bay”.
In making Laphroaig, malted barley is dried over a peat fire. The smoke from this peat, found only on Islay, gives Laphroaig its particularly rich flavour.
Laphroaig is best savoured neat, or with a little cool water. Roll it around on your tongue. Release the pungent, earthy aroma of blue peat smoke, the sweet nuttiness of the barley, the delicate heathery perfume of Islay’s streams. It is as unique as the island itself.
Laphroaig Cask Strength 10yo… My Favorite
CASK STRENGTH
The Purists Choice
Awarded Best Single Malt in the World in 2005 by Whisky Magazine, Original Cask Strength Laphroaig is bottled at natural distillery strength with all the depth of genuine taste and texture normally associated with sampling whisky at source.
We mature Laphroaig in seasoned oak barrels, charred before filling to impart a slight sweet vanilla nuttiness. Original Cask Strength Laphroaig is barrier-filtered only just, to remove the small char particles present. This means you will enjoy Laphroaig exactly as we made it. In extremes of temperature and when you add water it may appear a little cloudy – this is the natural condition of a malt of such a peaty pungence and uncompromising purity.
Adding a little water releases a rich aroma of peat smoke with some sweetness and strong hints of the sea.
Emphatic, full bodied and utterly unforgettable. Simply ‘The Best’.
Cask Strength picked as Best of the best all Single Malt Scotch whiskies!
Laphroaig Cask Strength has been voted “The Best of The Best” Single malt by over 100 judges in 5 countries testing malts in a “blind tasting” – all the samples were given to them without knowing which whisky they were testing.
Read the extract from the defining Whisky Magazine (March issue #46) article
