7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Icing-sugar sweetness and fruit – sweet apple and unripe pineapple – and herbal notes – ferns, tarragon, mint and fresh spring leaves.
Taste
Apples, pears, pineapple and even a touch of sweet banana.
Finish
Clean peat smoke, anise and fresh mint.
Nose
Peat, grilled apples, vanilla-laced French Pastries, honey, juicy pears, herbal and touches of plastic, iodine, oak and meaty notes.
Taste
Briny, smokey, fruity, vanilla-laced French Pastries, graham, smoke, copper, spice and grilled meat with a bit of barley water.
Finish
Long,smoke, malt, vanilla saltwater taffy and minerality.
Liquor
Laphroaig 16 Signatory 1995
Type
ABV
60.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sour grass, almond, cotton, fresh bread, cedar, dried bananas
Taste
Bitter wood, lime pudding, grassy, smoke
Finish
Lemon pulp, almond, oak, burn, peanuts, pear syrup, cocoa nibs
Liquor
Laphroaig 16 Signatory 1997 K&L
Type
ABV
55.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Roasted cashews, grilled pineapple, and dish soap.
Taste
Dingier,sweeter,peat candy,lemon and orange hard candies.
Finish
Citrus and sugar,tart, bitter, and ocean salty.
Liquor
Laphroaig 16 Signatory CS 1995
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Very citrusy, with lemon candy and hints of vanilla cake, peaches and stewed apples, some flowery hints
Taste
Sweet, rounded. Lots of pears and apples, powder sugar, grapefruit syrup. Light peppery notes and increasing (sweet) smoke.
Finish
Medium. dry, with some liquorice and walnut
Liquor
Laphroaig 16 Signatory CS 1997
Type
ABV
54.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Red grapes, raisins and dried dates, cinnamon, cloves, pepper. Mocha beans, chocolate, peat smoke note.
Taste
Creamy and slightly spicy, Milk coffee, cinnamon, clove powder
Finish
Medium to long, slightly dry, smoky note of lavender, old wood, subtle peat smoke. chocolatey.
Nose
Seaweedy blast, soft vanilla, soft malt, plenty of peat and iodine, fresh bandages.
Taste
Soft,oily ,medicinal flavours, iodine, bandages and honey,lemon.
Finish
Medium and Long length.
Liquor
Laphroaig 16 SMWS 29.186
Type
ABV
56.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Salty air, roasted marshmallow, some vanilla., cloves, apple with cinammon
Taste
Hugely medicinal, and so briney, seaweed, iodine, bitter wood. licorice and salty toffee
Finish
Long, sandalwood, lavender, light fruits, wood smoke and rich salt
Nose
sea breeze, nutty chocolate notes, peaty maltiness, sweet candies, spicy, subtle smoke
Taste
eathery smoke and always sweet with bitter notes, salty caramel with citrus notes
Finish
Long, Very tender, soft, peppery
Nose
sea breeze, nutty chocolate notes, peaty maltiness, sweet candies, spicy, subtle smoke
Taste
eathery smoke and always sweet with bitter notes, salty caramel with citrus notes
Finish
Long, Very tender, soft, peppery
Liquor
Laphroaig 18 1987 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Hazelnut, red Sambuca, pepperoni, chocolate chip cookies
Taste
Nutella, tobacco, strawberry cream, cloves, mushroom broth
Finish
Strawberry, macadamia nuts, lots of brine, edamame
Liquor
Laphroaig 18 1989 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Pear, teak, brine, nectarine, caramel
Taste
Smoke, lime zest, peach, caramel, cardamon, mushroom
Finish
Anise, coconut, milk chocolate, cereal, pear