Laphroaig 12 Years Old 2012/2024 Old Particular Douglas Laing for deinwhisky.de 57.3% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Laphroaig

Bottler: Douglas Laing (DL)

Bottling serie: Old Particular

Vintage: 2012

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: 12 Years Old

Casktype: Refill Barrel

Casknumber: DL 17869

Number of bottles: 264

Strength: 57.3%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Fruity, yet clearly phenolic smoke, which is unmistakably part of a classic Laphroaig. At first the full Laphi program with warm tar, Hansaplast and seaweed, after a while something calms down and the aroma focus shifts to lime juice, peach and apricot jam. It is always amazing how quickly the nose gets used to the peat smoke and eventually almost completely blocks it out.

Palate: Strong start, dry smoke with smoked bacon aroma, dried seaweed, black pepper, chili spice, cloves, a little liquorice. Given the type of cask, I expected vanilla, but it's more like toffee and marzipan, along with malty sugar beet syrup and sweet-tart quince jelly. Over time, a distinct oak spice spreads through the mouth, displacing the fruit aromas but leaving the peat smoke untouched.

Finish: Medium to long, dry. The overall tart fruit notes, which emerge from dried orange peel and sweet and sour apple, try to find their way into a well-ordered formation once again in order to assert themselves against oak spice and peat smoke, but ultimately they have to raise the white flag.