Laphroaig 1999 11 Years 1999/2011 Signatory Vintage

Laphroaig 1999 11 Years Un-chillfiltered Signatory Vintage

Laphroaig 11 Years Un-chillfiltered Signatory Vintage 70cl 46%vol. 1999/2011 Cask No. 700039+40 Bottle No. 547/737 is an Islay single malt single cask distilled in 1999, aged in ex-bourbon barrels bottled in 2011. A whisky with smoke, peat and classic saline notes of the distillery with an oily and dense palate, the result of dispensing with cold filtration.

Laphroaig distillery

Laphroaig dated 1815, when the Alexander and Donald Johnston brothers of the MacIain clan of Ardnamurchan founded the distillery, in 1847 Donald Johnston, the sole owner of Laphroaig, fell into a vat of boiling whisky and died, at that time Walter Graham, owner of Lagavulin, takes the reins of the two distilleries, Laphroaig and Lagavulin, while Dugald Johnston, Donald's young son, prepares to take over the distillery.

In 1857 the distillery returned to the hands of the Johnston family, who would keep possession of the distillery until 1954.

During this period Lagavulin and Laphroaig distilleries enter a legal cause, when Laphroaig cancels a commercial agreement in which it had agreed to sell its whisky to Lagavulin for the production of blendeds, which at that time included White Horse, invented in 1890 by the owner of Lagavulin, Peter Mackie.

After breaching the contract, in retaliation, Lagavulin decides to block Laphroaig's water supply, going to trial again, the resource fails in favor of Laphroaig this time, in response, a year later, Lagavulin hires the manager of Laphroaig with the aim of recreating the stills and thus producing an exact whisky to that of the neighboring distillery. Fortunately the attempt failed and today we can enjoy both distilleries, it must be said that the relations between the distilleries today are much more cordial.

Laphroaig distillery is famous for printing on its whiskies powerful notes in aroma and taste of peat, smoked, iodized and marine.

Independent bottler Signatory Vintage

Signatory Vintage dates from 1988, founded by Andrew Symington in Edinburgh. The name Signatory derives from the fact that Andrew's initial intention was to find someone famous to sign the labels of the bottles produced to sell them more easily. The first whisky that Signatory bought was a 1968 Glenlivet in sherry barrel, the whisky was sold before they could find a famous person, leaving the name of Signatory, a signatory in Spanish.

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection: Cold distillation is a process used to remove fats and oils naturally found in malt. Large distilleries use it to present a clean and transparent product and homogenize the final product. In the case of Signatory, as all the whisky comes from the same barrel, the need to maintain the same appearance and flavour disappears as everything comes from the same place, giving more importance to the natural flavours from the malt and to the body and texture of the whisky.

Tasting notes and interesting data from Laphroaig 1999 11 Years Un-chillfiltered Signatory Vintage

Country: Scotland.

Region: Islay.

Style: Single Malt.

Breeding: Distilled on 01/07/1999, aged in ex-bourbon barrels (Barrel Nº700039+40) of second use of five hundred and fifty liters (Hogsheads) and bottled on 02/06/2011 without cold filtering or colouring. Limited edition of 737 bottles, bottle No. 547.

Nose: Herbaceous and light peat and smoked notes appear on the nose.

Mouth: In the mouth it is oily, dense, the result of not being filtered cold. Licorice with salty touches, with slight herbaceous bitterness.

Final: Long and persistent, with a bitter memory of licorice.

Recommendation La Llar del Vi:

The independent Signatory Vintage bottler presents us with the opportunity to enjoy the classic character of Laphroaig without cold filtering or colouring, improving the natural notes in their maximum expression of each barrel in a limited series of 737 bottles.