Lagavulin 12 Year Old, Diageo Special Release 2024
The Tasting Notes
Drying in feel, and quite gentle. Fresh, clean phenols rise to the fore at once with aromas of a smouldering bonfire on a distant beach.
Smoothly creamy and really mouth-filling in texture, very sweet to taste at first then quickly drying, with a sprinkling of salt and a controlled smokiness.
Long, finally powerfully smoky and drying, with a twist of warming spice that also lingers in the aftertaste.
Details
This is Lagavulin character made sweet under the command of active oak. Bold smoke quietened to a hush, matured in first-fill ex-Bourbon and refill casks for a lush and glazed aroma. Experience a 12-year-old expression with thick toffee, vanilla, and coconut notes, unfurling with aromatic spice. A testament to oak's dynamic influence on bold character: powerful peat tempers into inviting sweetness.
Body: Medium.
Palate: Smoothly creamy and really mouth-filling in texture, very sweet to taste at first then quickly drying, with a sprinkling of salt and a controlled smokiness.
Nose: Drying in feel, and quite gentle. Fresh, clean phenols rise to the fore at once with aromas of a smouldering bonfire on a distant beach.
Finish: Long, finally powerfully smoky and drying, with a twist of warming spice that also lingers in the aftertaste.
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