Lagavulin Cask Strength 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750ml

Manufacturer's Notes: This truly is a Special Release for Lagavulin; it's now two hundred years since the first casks were filled at Islay's most famous distillery. On the nose, this natural cask strength expression combines powerful peat-smoke with fresh clean aromas and an intense fruity sweetness. Add water and the aroma grow livelier, with mint and distant volcanic smoke. The palate is surprisingly mild; sweet and smoothly oily, with a rising smoky pungency, and when water is added a hugely smoky-honeyed sweetness develops, still balanced by salt and aromatic smoke. The long, refined finish is smoothly cooling, then warming, sweetly pungent and powerfully smoky. Slightly lighter than recent expressions, and less drying, this is a fine, well-structured Lagavulin, versatile and equally at home with food or after dinner.