The perfect introduction to Laphroaig! This set contains 5cl bottles of Laphroaig 10 Year Old, Lore, and Quarter Cask. Laphroaig stayed in the Johnston family until 1954, when Ian Hunter died and left it to his secretary Bessie Williamson. Revered in Islay legend, Bessie stayed on the board until her retirement in 1972, by which time capacity had been increased and the distillery had passed into theownership of Schenley International. The company was to change hands several more times in the next thirty years, before being acquired by Fortune Brands (Beam Global) in 2005. Laphroaig 10 Year Old is a true cult classic. The expression is proudly distilled in the same way today as when Ian Hunter invented it some 75 years ago. Fortunately, this attempt was not successful and today relations betweeen the two great distilleries are rather more cordial.

Anyway, Donald Johnston bought his brother Alexander out of Laphroaig in 1836, before falling into a vat of boiling whisky by-products in 1847. Lagavulin's Walter Graham then leased Laphroaig and ran both distilleries until the young Dugald Johnston (Donald Johnston's son, do keep up) was ready to take over Laphroaig. Laphroaig Lore honours the passing of knowledge within the distillery. Laphroaig Distillery Manager John Campbell created the expression, the richest ever Laphroaig. Lore, meaning the passing of a skill or tradition through word of mouth, is the story of how Laphroaig is created, encapsulating the craft passed down from generation to generation over two centuries. Distillery manager John Campbell has been revamping the range in the last couple of years, adding to 2004's enormously successful 'Quarter Cask' with his own 25 year-old expression and a limited 27 year-old sherried Laphroaig, the first edition of which carried away the Ne Plus Ultra gongfor the best whisky tasted at the Malt Maniacs Awards in 2007. During the prohibition period in the US (1920-1933), the ingenious Johnston descendant Ian Hunter managed to persuade the authorities that Laphroaig was notreally whisky, and was allowed to sellit in the US under the label of 'Medicinal Spirit' -presumably because of its iodiney character and the belief of a naive Customs official that no-one would drink such a powerfully-flavoured beverage for pleasure.

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