It does come with a hefty price tag, that’s hard to ignore and is somewhat of the elephant in the room. What I will say is that if you are after a bottling of older Islay whisky that is quite consistent, bottled at a very decent strength and will always deliver on flavour, Laphroaig is very hard to beat in that realm.
Port Charlotte 18 year old is freshly on the market, but also has as hefty a price tag. No doubt the liquid is wonderful, but I feel like I’d take this every time.
Laphroaig has always been set apart by the way we all react to the first smell and taste of their 10 year old expression. It’s almost a caricature and comical in how dry, stinky and overly potent it is. Why would you ever want to drink something that smells like a diesel soaked ashtray that was cleaned with bleach? Not me originally, but now it’s the brand of whisky I own the most from.
