Apollo 14 Laphroaig 14 Year Old 2006

Laphroaig 15 Years
It’s Been A Long Way

A new bottling for the TWB Apollo series commemorating the Fra Mauro landing site of the Apollo 14 Mission – the intended landing site of the ill-fated Apollo 13. Matured in a single hogshead cask bottled October 2021. Expect astronomical peat smoke and bonfire embers. 257 number bottles, but you don’t have to be an astronaut to buy one!

Astronomical peat smoke and bonfire embers. Intergalactic barley sugars, dwarf crafter of vanilla pods and the partial eclipse of milk chocolate. Tilting on an axis of Baked Alaska, leading to a nebula of toasted oak and a long dry smokey finish

Buy – Laphroaig 15 Years – £145 / €142* / $162* / c$205*

Laphroaig Williamson 15 Year Old 2006 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask hogshead #TWB1027 bottled October 2021 to mark the Fra Mauro landing site of the Apollo 14 Mission, 1971. 257 numbered bottles.

On January 31st, 19 1, Apollo 14 launched from the Kennedy Space Center and landed on the Fra Mauro Highlands, the intended landing site of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Despite serious problems during the lunar descent, threatening to abort the mission and in turn the future of the Apollo program, Commander Alan Shepard manually steered the lunar module onto the surface. Stepping onto the Moon, Shepard proclaimed “And it’s been a long way but we’re here”.

Laphroaig Distillery was established in 1815 on the rocky south coast of the Isle of Islay off the west coast of Scotland. This malt whisky distillery continues to malt barley using its traditional malting floors and malt kiln. In 1994 the distiiley was awarded the Royal Warrant. The core range is quite extensive and supplemented by limited releases including a 21 year old was issued in 2015 to celebrate 21 years of Friends of Laphroaig. Independent bottlings are also available from Signatory, Cooper’s Choice and Hunter Laing. Laphroaig distillery also participates in Feis Ile, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music.