Description
Category: Whisky; Distillery: Laphroaig; Bottler: Douglas Laing; Bottling series: Old Particular; Cask: Refill Sherry Butt DL 14020 | single cask; Bottles: 228; Strength details: cask strength; Lot number: 19081
Laphroaig
Laphroaig Old Particular 21 Year Old, Refill Sherry Butt Cask, Cask No. DL 14020, 1998, Douglas Laing, 59.9%
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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
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Average Score
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Overall Rating
85.5/100
Great85.5 / 100
Based on 2 published Maltiply reviews.
- Nose
- No shortage of peat here. Hardwood bonfire, barbequed hospital, salted licorice, dead leaves, smoked gouda, tourtière, and All-Dressed chips. Rich autumnal (pumpkin) spice, black pepper, cayenne, and tarragon. Eventually the sherry emerges: cherries in syrup, prunes, orange bitters, vanilla, amber maple syrup, walnuts, and dark chocolate. Some slightly overcooked coffee and oily burning birch bark.
- Palate
- Immediate spicy peat slap on the arrival, with spicy chili, tobacco, and damp earth. There's a good amount of sweetness mixed in – sour cherry pie, flamed orange peel, tamarind chutney, cinnamon hearts, brown sugar, barbeque sauce, and caramelized red onions. Heavy medicinal peat smoke – creosote, swamp mud, iodine, and charred steak with baked potato. Hot peppers and spicy cinnamon toward the finish.
- Finish
- Long and smoky-spicy. Smoked brisket, or wait, is it braised brisket? More earthy-nutty baked potato. Tandoori lamb, camphor, iodine, and lapsang souchong. Hot cocoa, strawberry ice cream, and cloves. Lingering charcoal.
Reviews
Ssnowline lantern2 Oct
88 / 100
Smoky peat with a welcome sweetness of cherries and dark chocolate.
Nose: No tasting notes yetPalate: No tasting notes yetFinish: No tasting notes yet
afterglowrambler25 Aug83 / 100
The peat and medicinal smoke sound quite forceful, while cherries and dark chocolate bring a sweeter counterpoint. It seems less easygoing, but that contrast has appeal.
Nose: Hardwood bonfire, salted licorice and smoked gouda, Cherries in syrup, walnuts and dark chocolatePalate: Spicy peat, sour cherry pie and brown sugar, Medicinal peat smoke, iodine and charred steakFinish: Long, smoky-spicy finish with iodine, hot cocoa and cloves, Lingering charcoal
Change+2.1%
LatestSGD 367
HighSGD 395
LowSGD 359
Recently Sold
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European Whisky AuctionsAuction Sold Price - Sep 30, 2026SGD 366.93
European Whisky AuctionsAuction Sold Price - May 1, 2026SGD 395.00
European Whisky AuctionsAuction Sold Price - Apr 1, 2026SGD 359.24
- Region
- Islay
- Age
- 21 Years
- Vintage
- 1998
- Bottled
- 2020
- ABV
- 59.9%
- Volume
- 70cl
- Distillery
- Laphroaig
- Origin
- Scotland
- Cask type
- Refill Sherry Butt
- Bottling
- Independent Bottling - Douglas Laing
- Peated
- Peated
- Single cask
- Yes
- Non-chill filtered
- Yes
- Cask origin
- N.A
- Cask no.
- DL 14020
- Batch
- N.A
- PPM
- N.A
- Barley
- N.A
- Fermentation
- N.A
- Master distiller (bottling)
- N.A
- Master distiller (distillation)
- N.A
- Limited edition
- Yes
- Bottle count
- 228
- Has box
- Yes
- Closure
- driven cork
- Presentation
- tube
- Series highlights
- Old Particular
- Historical context
- N.A
- Special release
- N.A
- Allocation
- N.A
- Nose
- No shortage of peat here. Hardwood bonfire, barbequed hospital, salted licorice, dead leaves, smoked gouda, tourtière, and All-Dressed chips. Rich autumnal (pumpkin) spice, black pepper, cayenne, and tarragon. Eventually the sherry emerges: cherries in syrup, prunes, orange bitters, vanilla, amber maple syrup, walnuts, and dark chocolate. Some slightly overcooked coffee and oily burning birch bark.
- Palate
- Immediate spicy peat slap on the arrival, with spicy chili, tobacco, and damp earth. There's a good amount of sweetness mixed in – sour cherry pie, flamed orange peel, tamarind chutney, cinnamon hearts, brown sugar, barbeque sauce, and caramelized red onions. Heavy medicinal peat smoke – creosote, swamp mud, iodine, and charred steak with baked potato. Hot peppers and spicy cinnamon toward the finish.
- Finish
- Long and smoky-spicy. Smoked brisket, or wait, is it braised brisket? More earthy-nutty baked potato. Tandoori lamb, camphor, iodine, and lapsang souchong. Hot cocoa, strawberry ice cream, and cloves. Lingering charcoal.