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Laphroaig Cairdeas 2012

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@VictorReview by @Victor

13th Apr 2014

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Laphroaig Cairdeas 2012
  • Nose
    25
  • Taste
    23
  • Finish
    23
  • Balance
    23
  • Overall
    94

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My thanks to @Pudge72 for the reviewed sample. I've tasted this 2012 Cairdeas previous to this sample, and also have my own unopened bottle

I let a bottle of this go at a reasonable price locally because there were a lot of so-so reviews of the 2011 release of Cairdeas. Well, I shouldn't have let that one get away, have tasted it since and loved it, and now have my own bottle, a year later

Nose: very smokey, very peaty, moderately medicinal nose, which is at once sweet, bitter, salty, and full of umami. Searing, vivid, acrid, and luscious. I see no possible way to improve on this nose. Perfect in the smokey heavily peated Islay style

Taste: the flavours translate to the mouth with increased sweetness; intense and delicious

Finish: long, mellowing out to a sweet and peaty glow...you can still taste the smoke at the end...it almost burns a hole in your tongue...

Balance: I don't think that I have ever met a Laphroaig that I don't like. This 2012 Laphroaig Cairdeas is one of the best

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3 comments

@Pudge72
Pudge72 commented

You are more than welcome @Victor. Really glad you enjoyed the sample so much. The sweetness I pick up in this one comes across to me a bit like coconut. It works very nicely with the rest of the aromas/flavours.

10 years ago 0

@Nock
Nock commented

@Victor thanks for the wonderful review. DANG! I am sad I missed out on this one. The Cairdeas in general seem to get mixed reviews. However, this one sounds like one I would have enjoyed. The information I have pieced together is that it was designed by John Cambell (he and Robert Hicks have seemed to swap years putting the Cairdeas together): 50% is Laphroaig spirit fully matured for 7 years in quarter cask; the other 50% is left over from the original 2008 Cairdeas liquid matured for 4 more years (which I assume was in the standard ex: Maker's Mark bourbon barrels).

Anyone know anything else different about this liquid?

10 years ago 0

@Victor
Victor commented

@Nock, this 2012 Cairdeas is one which will definitely be to your taste. You can try some of mine when I eventually get around to opening my bottle. Its acrid searing quality reminds me a lot of that Red Dog #293/2007 cask of Kilchoman. I don't think that you will be as sanquine about the Laphroaig 2013 Port Wood Cairdeas, as you will be about this 2012. I do like the 2013 version too, but it deviates from the purist Laphroaig style quite a bit.

10 years ago 0