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The Wall 39-Year-Old Rope Edition
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.
Inspired by the journey of sherry casks to our distillery
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.
A beautiful green bespoke painted bottle
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.
The Wall Rope 39 Year Old FAQ
This expression is 39 years old. It is a long-aged Laphroaig that shows a rarer, more refined side of the whisky distillery in Islay, with decades of maturation shaping its depth, texture and complexity while still holding onto that unmistakable Laphroaig identity.
The Wall Collection is a limited edition series created to honour the iconic wall around the Laphroaig distillery. Each release is inspired by a different element of Laphroaig’s story, celebrating the people, places and practical details that have shaped the distillery from its earliest days. It is heritage told in a distinctly Laphroaig way, rooted in place, proud of its origins, and full of character.
Only 200 bottles of The Wall 39-Year-Old Rope Edition were made available worldwide, making it an exceptionally rare release even within Laphroaig’s more limited-edition whiskies.
Laphroaig The Wall 39 was matured in Oloroso Sherry seasoned European oak hogsheads and then finished in a Pedro Ximénez Sherry seasoned European oak butt. That combination brings added richness and depth to the whisky, layering sherry influence onto Laphroaig’s distinctive character in a way that feels both elegant and full of flavour.
The Rope Edition draws inspiration from the journey sherry casks once made to the distillery. Its design references the ropes of the puffer boats that carried those casks to Laphroaig’s remote shore, as well as the practical rope work used in unloading them. It is a design rooted in real distillery history, turning an essential part of how the Islay single malt whisky once arrived into a story told through the bottle itself.
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