Laphroaig The Wall Collection - 39YO Rope Edition

The second release in this series of rare and wonderfully aged whiskies is one of the oldest Laphroaig expressions we’ve ever released. It’s inspired by the essence of movement, craft, and travel that’s so crucial to the way our sherry cask-made whiskies come to be. And so, when it came to bottling this 39-Year-Old spirit, we decided to take the opportunity to celebrate the journey of sherry casks to our distillery made by puffer boats. We named this edition Rope, after the ropes used on the boats that would carry the casks to our bay. 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.