Head to head · same category, comparable price
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years vs Laphroaig 10 Year Old
Laphroaig 10 Year Old is the cheaper bottle and the dearer whisky: £161 a litre of pure alcohol against £131. That inversion is the whole of this comparison.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years | Laphroaig 10 Year Old | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Single malt | Single malt |
| Origin | Islay, Scotland | Islay, Scotland |
| Age | 10 years | 10 years |
| Strength | 50% ABV | 40% ABV |
| Cask | First-fill and refill ex-bourbon American oak, ex-wine casks | Ex-bourbon barrel |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £46 | £45 |
| Per 10cl | £6.57 | £6.43 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £131 | £161 |
| Chill-filtered | No | Not stated |
What separates them
Both Islay whiskies, from different distilleries.
Both state 10 years.
Cask as each producer describes it: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years in first-fill and refill ex-bourbon american oak and ex-wine casks, Laphroaig 10 Year Old in ex-bourbon barrel.
Chill filtration: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is not, Laphroaig 10 Year Old does not say.
Colour: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years natural colour, Laphroaig 10 Year Old silent.
Laphroaig 10 Year Old: specifications not yet producer-confirmed.
What the price buys
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is £1.00 dearer a bottle than Laphroaig 10 Year Old.
Strength reverses that: Laphroaig 10 Year Old is £161 a litre of pure alcohol against £131.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years is 14th cheapest and Laphroaig 10 Year Old 21st cheapest.
Flavour, compared
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| Axis | Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years | Laphroaig 10 Year Old |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 2 | 9 |
| Sweet | 6 | 2 |
| Fruity | 7 | 2 |
| Spicy | 5 | 4 |
| Woody | 5 | 4 |
| Sherried | 3 | 1 |
| Cereal | 6 | 4 |
| Oily | 7 | 6 |
Furthest apart on peaty, 2 against 9, then fruity, 7 against 2. 3 of the eight axes clear 3 points: peaty, fruity and sweet.
Each bottle in its own right
Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years
Barley sugar, sea air and citrus at a proper 50%. Unpeated Islay, which surprises people.
Now carries a 10-year age statement — it was NAS 'Scottish Barley' for years and most sites still publish it that way. Every bottle prints a recipe code that unlocks the exact cask-by-cask recipe and barley origin for that batch, batch disclosure no other major Scotch brand offers. Bottled at 50% rather than the usual 40-46%, which the producer states explicitly.
Full record →Laphroaig 10 Year Old
Medicinal, seaweed and ash. The most divisive dram in mainstream whisky.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years for value at 50%, transparency and unpeated islay, Laphroaig 10 Year Old for testing whether you like peat at all.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie 10 Aged Years and Laphroaig 10 Year Old: bruichladdich.com, laphroaig.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.