Laphroaig cs 10y red stripe - straight from the wood

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Laphroaig original cask strength
10y red stripe – 55,7%

This is the version that came after the famous green stripe but prior to the 'batches'

scores:
whiskybase – 91/59 wb14065
malt maniacs - ..
serge valentin - 93

Laphroaig 10 yo 'Original Cask Strength' (55.7%, OB, Red Stripe, +/-2005) Five stars

We used to be extremely enthusiastic about these batches, partly because despite the fact that they had gone from the famed 'green stripe' to a 'red stripe' version, the juice had remained superlative. But I never wrote any proper tasting note for this edition, so now is the time. Quite funnily, it was advertised as having been 'bottled at the natural distillery strength'. Colour: straw. Nose: epitomically 'modern' Laphroaig, so more coastal/medicinal and less fruity/tropical than even the first '10 C/S'. It is shock full of mercurochrome, bandages, fresh kelp, clams and just this pretty tarry smoke that's still a little less tarry that the smoke of its close neighbours. See what I mean. I would add quite a lot of brine and seawater, as well as, there, a moderate lemonness. Wonderful saline purity. With water: bandages, oysters and fino sherry (or manzanilla). No further fruitiness. Mouth (neat): massive and subtle at the same time. Almost twenty years of bottle aging seem to have… done nothing to it. Huge salty peat, massive ashes, litres of eucalyptus-based cough syrup. With water: a little lemon marmalade for sure, but the core remains very salty, very peaty, and very ashy. You may add these two or three olives that we often mention. Finish: very long, on pure peat, seawater and just a little pepper. Comments: the salt is almost playing with your lips. It's really one of the first quasi-un-fruity batches. I utterly love it, but my former 93 points may have been a little excessive. Mind you, they were 'granted' in 2005.
SGP:468 - 92 points.

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Laphroaig cs 10y red stripe - straight from the wood