Sold outJun 2021In short · Laphroaig (Islay), 9 years.
“Limited to 1 bottle per member A beautiful and deeply classical initial aroma of seawater, green olives, bath salts, rock pools, seaweed crackers, preserved lemons in…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 29.283 is a single cask of Laphroaig, in the Islay region, 9 years old, bottled at 60.1%, released in the Jun 2021 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 29.x is from Laphroaig.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Since 1815, on Islay's southern shore, Laphroaig has made the most divisive dram in Scotch, a great medicinal wave of iodine, tar, seaweed and bonfire smoke that you either fall for hard or flee. There is no polite version. It carries a Royal Warrant, and its Friends of Laphroaig each hold a token square foot of the island, the rent paid in a dram. Beam Suntory's.