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ralfy legend
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 Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| End of day your enjoying it so thats all that counts for now, you might change your mind a few years down the line, |
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BigShing
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| MaltArfa wrote: | | BigShing wrote: | Take a bottle of laphroaig 10, drink half of it then fill it back up to full with water. That's Laphroaig select.  |
Not sure I agree with that as it's still heavily peated, phenolic and smoked hammy IMO, not at all like the more subtle smokiness you get with something like Highland Park 12 or a Johnnie Walker blend. There's a sweetness to it for sure, but I think that makes it very sippable. As well.as enjoying all the various peaty flavours and notes, I also get vanillas and can pick out the PX in there too.
Yes it could benefit from a few extra % and maybe non chill filtration but there's no added colour. I wouldn't pay £33 for it but for £23 I think it's great. |
I'm not sure what all the above has to do with how Laphroaig Select compares to the 10yr, which is all my comment was actually addressing. It tastes like watered down 10yr to me, but each to his own.
Yes Laphroaig select is peaty compared to Highland Park 12, but that would be a ridiculous comparison to make considering Highland Park 12 is not a heavily peated malt that relies on that big peat punch like Laphrioag. Select is lacking depth and flavour - not just peat - in comparison to other Laphroaig expressions. It's cheap young whisky and heavily peated whiskies if anything tend to be more smoky, more medicinal, etc when they are young anyway as aging them in the cask tends to calm them down, just try a bottle of Ardbeg Wee Beastie and compare it to the 10. |
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Canuck 01
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Based on someone's recommendation, I used Highland Park Magnus as my intro to smoky, peated scotch. Enjoyed it, but was slightly underwhelmed by the smoke.
So decided to dive straight into the deep end and next went with Ardbeg 10.
Was slightly overwhelmed with the first dram, but it has now quickly become my favourite scotch (admittedly I'm a new scotch drinker). Just wish it wasn't over $100 a bottle here in Western Canada. |
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F3zza
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:32 am Post subject: |
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Hi all. First time poster, long time whisky drinker.
I'm another who thinks Laphroaig Select gets an unfair bad rep.
I agree there is a little more depth in the 10 and QC, but find the Select to be a decent enough dram for the price, especially when on offer for £20.
I always have a bottle on my shelf and it's a dram I usually offer to people who say they don't like Whisky. More often than not they actually like the Select. I think it's because it's not what they are expecting a whisky to taste like. Probably because their previous experiences with whisky have been with generic blends.
When I've poured them a 10 or QC they haven't been as keen or given the positive feedback like they generally do with Select. Maybe it's because it's less complicated to an uninitiated palate?
So I do think Select is a decent enough place to start with peated/smokey whisky, especially if they are relatively new whisky drinkers or say they don't like whisky. |
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