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This is the 18 year old we're going to taste now and the 18 year old is produced in limited
quantities every year so if you manage to get some we should savour it.
Bottled at 48% alcohol, non chill filtered again and if we look at the 18 year old you'll
see, colour first it's actually a nice bright gold colour.
Then on the nose nice, gentle sweet soft toffee flavour, some spiciness coming through and
then some fruit flavours well coming through in this one and because of the extra ageing
in the casks there's more kind of oxidisation taking place so different flavour profiles
coming through and much more complexity. Almost kind of honey at the back end of this
one. On the palate, kind of smoke tang coming through first but then it moves into floral
which is not so much on the nose but huge floral flavours in the mouth. Nice spiciness
coming through, quite a nice balance on the tongue, really bitter dark chocolate flavours
coming into the palate now, depends on what your thing is. Real kind of bitter flavours
coming out at the back end there and a nice kind of lapping of peat smoke very much at
the back of the tongue. Nice balance, lingering finish and this will
keep going and going and going into the evening this flavour.
So that's the 18 year old Laphroaig.