Laphroaig 10 Year Old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

On the far edge of the Scotch whisky map it’s supposed that the art of distillation was first brought to Islay by Irish monks. Being remote it’s an art that flourished in the hands of the islanders whose illegal operations tested the resolve and means of the tax man. Eventually the law relaxed various whisky makers set up legitimate distilleries among them a pair of farmers Donald and Alexander Johnston who in 1815 founded their distillery on the island’s south coast. Laphroaig so called after its location ‘broad hollow by the bay’ remained in family hands for the next 139 years.