Laphroaig 39 Year Old The Wall Collection "Rope" By Laura Carlin Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL

1 of Only 200 Bottles.
Only 22 Bottles Available Globally.

Inspired by the iconic wall of our beloved distillery home – you know the one, it’s got our name emblazoned on it – The Wall Collection is a limited edition series of rare Laphroaig expressions. With only 22 of 200 bottles of the highly anticipated Rope Edition 39-Year-Old available worldwide, this rare opportunity offers total immersion in the character of our distillery and the rich flavours of our whiskies.

Building on the success of the collection's first instalment, which focused on our Islay peat, the second release in this limited-edition collection is titled Rope. This nautical theme is inspired by the journey of sherry casks to our distillery on board the region’s storied puffer boats.

The hand-painted design evokes the boats’ ropes, which would connect the world of sherry to our stretch of the Islay shore. It’s a theme evoked in the flavour profile of the bottling, which combines the influence of different sherry casks with our unmistakable Islay peat.

Encased in a beautiful green bespoke painted bottle, each one-of-a-kind item has been uniquely completed by hand by award-winning British artist and ceramicist, Laura Carlin. While she usually works with books or ceramics, Carlin enjoys bringing stories to life around three-dimensional objects, and so there’s a natural fit for her to bring our distillery history to life through The Wall Collection.

To really evoke the spirit of this crucial part of our distillery building, Carlin used the exact paint that our warehouse painter Sammy uses every year to top up the paint on the iconic LAPHROAIG lettering that stands emblazoned on the wall of Warehouse No.1. Sammy knows a thing or two about that wall, having been keeping it in good nick since he first applied a lick of paint to it as an apprentice at 15 years old.

Tasting Notes:

Colour: Rich tawny.

Aroma: Spicy and rich with toffee, cranberry and dark red cherry. Polished leather, sweet molasses and mandarin orange.

Taste: Gentle smokiness with notes of treacle toffee, candied orange peel and hazelnut.

Finish: Long and smooth with smoked orange toffee, oak and mixed spice.

Maturation: Matured in Oloroso Sherry seasoned European oak hogshead maturation and finished in a Pedro Ximénez Sherry seasoned European oak butt.