Sold outMar 2022In short · Laphroaig (Islay), 10 years.
“Limited to 2 bottles per member Big plumes of dark grey smoke from the kiln combined with the Dutch spirit called Kummel, in this case a heavily smoked version of that…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 29.284 is a single cask of Laphroaig, in the Islay region, 10 years old, bottled at 62.2%, released in the Mar 2022 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.