Secret Sponge 6 Williamson (Laphroaig) 10 Year Old 57.1% ABV

This is the sixth – and final – Secret Sponge Edition. It’s a 10 year old, small batch bottling of Williamson Single Malt.  

This whisky was distilled in 2014 and filled into refill hogsheads. Around two and half years ago, we combined two of the hogsheads from this parcel and re-racked that mix into an ex-Laphroaig refill butt to continue maturing. I wanted to do this small, controlled initial bottling from this butt to increase the headspace for the rest of the whisky as it matures.  

The natural cask strength was way up at over 65%, so I decided to bottle it with quite a bit of reduction at 57.1%.  

I have always loved this distillery. It was my dad’s favourite whisky and the whisky that got me into single malts in the first place. The last time we bottled whisky from this distillery was for Whisky Sponge Edition No.61, which I did as a tribute to my dad and to my daughter Molly. This one is for my son, Arthur.  

I expect we’ll bottle the remainder of this butt sometime between 15 and 18 years old.