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I go for the ardbeg when I can. We were shopping in a duty free country and no ardbeg but they had a bunch of laphroig… gee that 10 year is too expensive… got a bottle of ‘select’ for $18 and… we struggle to detect any laphroig in it. It was bad. Turns out it’s some kind of duty free special. Recently we tasted some laphroig 10 at a friends house and… same deal. The bright brine/iodine/medicine flavor is gone or very reduced. Glad I didn’t lay down those big bucks because it didn’t taste like laphroig. We still have an old bottle of laphroig 10 and it still tastes right (err, wrong.)
Is a huge shame what’s happened to whiskey prices.
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