The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2019 Special Release
Tasting notes:This Islay gem has a comely nose. One might even say pulchritudinous, but that is a word that sounds so different from what it means that I abjure its use. [...]
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The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2018 Special Release
Tasting notes:The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2018 Special Release opens aggressively with smoked bacon, smoked pork belly, and lightly-charred chunks of cloven ham cubes. But [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2017 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: Ah, this nose! This nose! I know Proust talks about tea and madeleines and memory and so forth. But I’m having a moment like that right now and I [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2016 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: The fog clears in the morning after the battle, not quite taking the remaining smoke with it. But it leaves behind a crisp, clean landscape. Pork shoulder [...]
The Lagavulin 8 Year 200th Anniversary Limited Edition
Tasting notes: I’m a little late on getting this review out, but given that one could probably still find bottles of this floating around (I found one recently in a bar [...]
Single Cask Nation Undisclosed Islay 6 Year 2009 (2nd Fill PX Sherry Barrique)
[We missed getting this review out before this whisky sold out, but this one sold out almost right away, and quite a while ago now. So we then took our time getting the [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year 2015 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: Right away I get my first unexpected delight. The nose is initially perfumey. Then there are notes of boiling sap from trees in a magical forest. But [...]
The Single Cask Nation Undisclosed Islay 7 Year Old
Tasting notes: Nosing this dram, I find myself mentally traversing Islay in search of some hint, some disclosure, of that which is Undisclosed. I wander across the Rhinns [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year 2014 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: The Lagavulin 12 Diageo 2014 Limited Edition smells like Victory. It also smells a lot like a young, sassy Lagavulin 16; a sharp, fiery, rabid hydrophobic [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year 2013 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: The signature note of the distillery is immediately present on the nose. It’s like being in the Lagavulin still house and being so taken with that note [...]
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