Lagavulin / 12 Years Old - Whisky Magazine

Lagavulin

12 Years Old

ABV 56.1%
REVIEWED Issue 64

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Specifications

Brand: Lagavulin
Expression: 12 Years Old
Type: Scotland Whisky / Single Malt
Age: 12 years old
Year of bottling: 2006
ABV: 56.1%
Country/Region: Scotland / Islay
Bottling type: Standard (Distillery or blended)

Awards

Recommended
Issue 64

Tasting notes

Taster Arthur Motley

Nose: Obviously phenolic but also with sugared almonds, green tea and green peppercorns. Gooseberries, soot and wood smoke. Chinese restaurant seaweed. At times a pink Dettol note.
Palate: More of that green tea, smoky almonds and some jalapeño spice.
Finish: Coal tar. Very dry.
Comment: Typical of this great distillery: satisfying and sophisticated.

8.8

Taster Dave Broom

Nose: Intense, fresh. Marine notes, salty seaweed, fresh fish. The smoke begins to charge out: smokehouse chimney. Sweet all the way.
Palate: Sweet start then it snags on the palate and starts to flow. The scented smoke rises to the top of the mouth the sweetness dips onto the tongue. Succulent, intense and marine.
Finish: Long and sweetly smoky.
Comment: You can see into this like a rockpool. Clean and pristine. Complexity building.

8.3

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Lagavulin Distillery, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay , Islay, Scotland

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