TASTING NOTES ON LAPHROAIG.

TASTING NOTES ON LAPHROAIG. When Henry Nejako was visiting us a while ago, he tasted some of the Laphroaig that I was drinking. His comments included: “kerosene”… “creosote”… “turpentine’ ….”pitch.” It occurred to me to look up what some other tasters have said. This site had the following tasting notes on the ten year old Lahproaig that I was drinking: “Nose: Sweet and peaty”….”Hint of iodine. Hey… Tea. Whiff of urine as well, I’m afraid…Taste: Sweet and peaty, just like the nose.” On the ten year old “cask strength”, the tasting notes include “Gasoline in the finish”, so I think I have to give Henry full marks for his appraisal. Commentaries on Laphroaig keep coming back to the peaty taste, which this site translates as “(Intentionally tasting like decaying vegetation).” I posted here about how the taste of Laphroaig called up for me the smell of a peat fire and thoughts of my ancestors, who I think of as including bog people on both sides.