A special bottling of Laphroaig 12yo, this Cairdeas was the first bottling overseen by incoming distillery manager John Campbell and was released at the 2009 Feis Ile festival celebrating Islay whisky & music. Cairdeas is pronounced 'cur-chess' (more or less) and means 'friendship' in Gaelic.
Nose: smoked lemon and orange peel, apple slices. Fresh, salty smoke. Vanilla, a serving of oatmeal cookies.
Taste: apple sweet, greasy peat smoke. Oak chips pearl on the tongue. A licorice sweet. Warm tar. Medical, phenolic. Mild herbs, salt, pepper.
Finish: long, slightly dry, with cold smoke, citrus juice, tart oak and vanilla.
