7,000+ Whiskey Database
Liquor
Lagavulin 1999 Distillers Edition
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Germoline and meaty ham hock. Fruits in behind; lightly, and all dried: prunes, raisins.
Taste
Smoky, rather than peaty; the sherry and peat have combined into something more BBQ smoke and hickory than heather and scrub. Lanolin, fat, burnt wood. Barbecue sauce.
Finish
Sweet elements of toffee apple.
Liquor
Lagavulin 2001 – Feis Ile 2017
Type
ABV
56.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Some prickle, candied chestnuts, oily mineral note, fragrant smok, Lagavulin vein, dark hints of char.
Taste
Oil-smooth, salt and hot pepper, spicy dryness, which is still backed by a smoky intensity.
Finish
Long, pepper-spice warmth leaving a delicious nutty and smoky aftertaste.
Liquor
Lagavulin 2010 Distillery Only
Type
ABV
52.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Peat smoke, salty and mineralic with a hint of balsamic vinegar, icing sugar, vanilla, leather, smoked sea salt, salted caramel, sherry, tannic oak, iodine, jammy fruits, cherry, blackcurrant, plum, peach skin
Taste
Caramel, sour cherries, salty, dusty, mineralic, honey, raisin, leather, peach skin, cigarette ash, plum, chocolate, walnut, tobacco, lapsang souchong tea, ashen smoke.
Finish
Long, leathery and sweet dried fruits and peat ash persist.
Nose
Peat, vanilla. A raisiny sweetness checks the smoke. Crisp, roasty malt.
Taste
Sweet and luscious, moke fills the mouth. Very salty tang; coffee, vanilla, a glimmer of fruit.
Finish
Long, fruit, peat, and long-lasting oak.
Liquor
Lagavulin 2013 Triple Matured
Type
ABV
48%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Spicy with aromas of dry coconut, fresh pastries and latte – and the classic Lagavulin smoke.
Taste
Fresh pastries and the classic Lagavulin components – smoke and peat.
Finish
Almost like delicate, sweetened black tea
Liquor
Lagavulin 2018 Jazz Fest
Type
ABV
58.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Dry, ashy smoke mixed with pear, fresh grass cuttings, straight bark-free branches, malt and oatmeal.
Taste
Pears, green apples, machine oil, salt and pepper.
Finish
Medium long, smoky, dry.
Liquor
Lagavulin 21 (2007 Release)
Type
ABV
56.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Coffee beans, old books, figs, chocolate, tobacco, leather, toasted bread, horse stable, camphor, iodine.
Taste
Starting dry and sherried but getting more tarry and rather oily. Dark chocolate. Roasted coffee beans. Dry walnuts.
Finish
Dark and long, on sesame oil, camphor, peat smoke and a little salt and leather.
Liquor
Lagavulin 21 (2012 Release)
Type
ABV
52%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Leathery type of peat, cold ashes and deep smoke. A little vanilla. Then some pepper and cardamom.
Taste
Tobacco sourness rather than tobacco sweetness. Slowly brings forward a couple of rounder notes (dried fruits and chocolate) before ending on nutty notes (even a little Gianduja).
Finish
Very long, on cold ashes, seaweed, spices and a vague cocoa sweetness.
Liquor
Lagavulin 21 1997 Single Cask
Type
ABV
56.6%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Peat smoke, seashells, walnuts, a little tobacco.
Taste
Toffee and Demerara sugar (sherry after all) before it gets back to camphor, walnuts, hints of coffee and coastal notes.
Finish
Long, on smoked fish, black peppercorns, marmalade and hints of sweet oak.
Liquor
Lagavulin 21 Sherry Cask 2012
Type
ABV
52%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Leathery type of peat, cold ashes and deep smoke. A little vanilla. Then some pepper and cardamom.
Taste
Liquorice and pepper, spicy / woody layer, tobacco, notes (dried fruits and chocolate).
Finish
Very long, on cold ashes, seaweed, spices and a vague cocoa sweetness.
Nose
Honey, oaky, hint of ginger
Taste
honey, smoky, ginger, charcoal, treacle, ash, oak
Finish
Medium, oaky and dry
Liquor
Lagavulin 25 1993 Single Cask
Type
ABV
56%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Mild overall, with some prickle.
Taste
Smoke, salt and hot pepper
Finish
Long