Serge har smagte på MACY's LapBeg vatting - takket været Al og Hering :

Lapbeg 75/25 8 yo 1998 (48%, MacY, Denmark, Butt #2, 900 bottles) A vatting of 75% Laphroaig and 25% Ardbeg. Colour: white wine. Nose: full peat mode, punto basta. Smoke, ashes, oysters, wet stones, smoked tea, lemon juice"¦ Ultra-clean. Smells stronger than just 48%. Simple but classy stuff, we don't always need complexity when the profile is perfect.
Mouth: less demonstrative now but still balanced. The peat is sort of rounded off and so is the smokiness. A little acacia honey, apple compote with cinnamon, smoked tea again, a little candy sugar"¦ It's at the long finish that the peat strikes back, together with a little pineapple syrup (sign of young age in my books) and a little pepper. More civilized than on the nose but still quite, well, assertive. Another perfect Islayer for your (silver) hipflask, but no sherry despite the butt. The Danes did it properly, as expected. 87 points. (and thanks Al and Carsten-H.)

/claus