Product Description

Always the best value offering from the annual Diageo special releases and this years cask strength edition of the 12 year old Ex-Bourbon cask aged Lagavulin is again a real treat of peat. Nose: Salty citrus, white ash, iodine with a leafy/green vegetal edge, chilli flake on seaweed, white pepper, some sweeeter & aromatic vanilla creep in along with some pickled lime, hemp and preserved lemons. Palate: Candied lemons, white pepper on seaweed, green bell peppers, leathery vanilla, coastal peat, lime pickle, salted green apple, tarry/white ash peat smoke. Finish: More green peppers with salty citrus (especially lime) dry vanilla oak, vegetal peat tar smoke, long and chilli like spice. Only 31000 bottles released from 2001/2002 distillations and very different to the 16 year old release, less tarry and more green like fruit/vegetal influenced.