Whisky Focus - Laphroaig Live 2015 Returns To Islay In 200th Anniversary Year

Laphroaig Live 2015 returns to its Islay home in its 200th anniversary year for a special tasting and world record attempt!

The ninth annual Laphroaig Live returns to Islay  in 2015 just as you would expect as it is the distillery's 200th anniversary year.

To mark this very special anniversary Laphroaig Live is not just returning to the home of Laphroaig, they plan to showcase four phenomenal whiskies as well as going behind the scenes at the distillery with Laphroaig’s very own distillery manager on this auspicious year John Campbell who will be joined by no less than five of the previous distillery managers! The first time they have all been together.

This year they will be tasting 4 very special expressions:

• Laphroaig 15 year old – the official 200th Expression.
   
• Laphroaig Cairdeas 2015 - distilled using only the original small stills.
   
• Laphroaig 21 year old – created for the Friends of Laphroaig 21st Birthday.
   
• Laphroaig 32 year old - 100% sherry matured, a very rare, special expression.

Coming live from Laphroaig’s famous floor malting’s, one of only a handful left in the whisky industry, John Campbell and five previous Laphroaig distillery managers will be joined by two experts Bernhard Schafer - whisky journalist and Master of the Quaich and Emma Andersson, Editor of Allt Om Whisky.

Also joining John will be Marcel van Gils, author of the official 200th book about Laphroaig as well as many of the Friends of Laphroaig from many countries around the World.

But the main audience, who will as always be posting in their questions to the panel live on the night, is you, the distillery's worldwide audience of Laphroaig lovers, including a live link to Laphroaig US Whisky Ambassador Simon Brooking who will be joined by 75 Friends of Laphroaig via a live link to New York.

To celebrate this special occasion, Laphroaig will be attempting to set a world record by encouraging the whole global audience to raise a toast to Laphroaig on their 200th anniversary!

You can watch the show live at www.laphroaig.com/live/ on Sept 24th at 8pm local time and if you would like to submit a question for the panel you can send it in now at the above link. Note that John sends out Laphroaig nosing glasses for the best questions.

Join the conversation on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with #LaphroaigLive

If you want to take part in the tasting at home you will find a great range of Laphroaig whisky available from specialist whisky shops such as The Whisky Exchange

Laphroaig Live is on the 24th September at:

• UK 8pm
   
• New York 4pm
   
• Los Angeles 1pm
   
• Sydney 6am (25th September)
   
• Stockholm 10pm
   
• Berlin 10pm

• UK Shops
   
• USA Shops
   
• European Shops
  

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