Whisky Ramblings 479: Two Islay from the Magnificent Five – Scotch Whisky News
Whisky Ramblings 479: Two Islay from the Magnificent Five
Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries two very different Islay. Two years ago, Magnificent Five – a West Flemish whisky society – already bottled an Islay Blended Malt of 8 years old. It was sherry hogshead #LAP29, which suggested (rightly) that it was a teaspooned Laphroaig. And now look… they could lay their hands on sister cask #LAP30 which had been sleeping for 11 years. Mark puts it head-to-head with another of their new releases: a sherry matured Bunnahabhain. After 13 years on a sherry hogshead, that yielded 178 bottles at 55%. Mark used to find the combo sherry and peat very difficult. But practice makes perfect. Nowadays he even finds sherry and peat something to look forward to or even actively look for.
