Laphroaig An Cuan Mor

Laphroaig An Cuan Mor is one of Laphroaig’s travel retail bottles and it’s made from their typical peated distillate which starts off being aged in first fill ex-Bourbon barrels and then gets finished in European Oak. Translated from Gaelic, Au Cuan Mor means Big Ocean and that’s exactly what it delivers – a big ocean of sensory enveloping aromas and flavors. No joke, this the main reason I go to Laphroaig tastings because Simon almost always has a bottle of it hiding in his wellies.

Laphroaig An Cuan Mor is a No Age Statement whisky, but I’ve read on more than one site that this is made from stocks of Laphroaig 18 finished in sherry casks. There’s nothing official about it and when I asked Simon (brand rep) about it at the last Laphroaig tasting he didn’t confirm that was the case, but he didn’t fully deny it either… Regardless of whether it’s 8 or 18 years it’s a well executed whisky and at the end of the day that’s what really matters.