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LAGAVULIN 12 yo Limited 57.5%
Bottling Official
(70cl.)
12 Years old
Origin : Scotland
Whisky LAGAVULIN aged 12 years SPECIAL RELEASE.
From Islay's most famous distillery, this vigorous 12 year old Lagavulin's smoky aromas soon become sweet and toffee-like, with some fruit and nuts. Adding water - try one part whisky to two parts still water - you may see a slight cloudiness (normal in an unfiltered cask strength single malt) and catch a whiff of Arbroath smokies, the renowned Scottish smoked haddock dish.
Tasting, a malty sweetness strikes you, accompanied by herbal notes and a touch of seaweed. Longer flavours are of pine-resin, dry, with plenty of fragrant smoke. The finish is pure Lagavulin - long lasting, all ship's tar, ropes and polish.
This is a powerful new member of the family, that reveals all the complexity of the 16 year old in an appealing, less rich style.
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The Distillery...
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Whisky LAGAVULIN - the Distillery.
Among the great homes of malt whisky the greatest is Islay, home even today to seven active malt distilleries. And first among the Islay malts is Lagavulin™ - the definitive Islay malt.
Islay came late to law and order. It was well into the 19th Century when arrangements to collect duty here finally fell into line with those applying elsewhere in Scotland and legal distilling became the norm.
As early as 1742, there were perhaps ten illicit stills operating at Lagavulin. In 1816 local farmer and distiller John Johnston founded the first legal distillery, within view of Dunyvaig Castle, once the stronghold of the Lords of the Isles.
A year later Archibald Campbell founded a second, which seems later to have traded under the name Ardmore. After Johnston's death the two were united, when Glasgow-based Islay malt merchant Alexander Graham, to whom Johnston had been in debt, acquired Lagavulin for the princely sum of £1,103 9 shillings 8 pence; approximately $2000 by today’s currency standard.
Graham improved the buildings and his successors, James Logan Mackie & Co., carried on the business successfully. Lagavulin went from strength to strength. Alfred Barnard, visiting in 1887, commented that "There are only a few of the Scotch distillers that turn out spirit for use as single malt whiskies, and that at Lagavulin can claim to be one of the most prominent."
Owner Peter Mackie became famous throughout the whisky world as the creator of the famous blend, White Horse. A man driven by the Victorian work ethic and so nicknamed by his staff "Restless Peter", he was continually planning fresh ventures, one of which the famous "traditional" Malt Mill distillery opened alongside Lagavulin in 1908 and closed in 1960.
Today's Lagavulin™, winner of Gold Medals at nine International Wine and Spirit Competitions and the 1993 Ian Mitchell Trophy as best 'Special Edition' Single Malt Scotch Whisky, is acclaimed by writer Jane MacQuitty as "gloriously rich, smoky, iodine-scented.”
Lagavulin™ is a wonderfully rounded pleasure. Its recently described "awesome and marvellous complexity of flavours" are enjoyed by a small but growing band of malt lovers, for whom this big, dark, intense character just is malt.
"Restless Peter" can rest easy at last.... Always buy your whisky LAGAVULIN on TERRITOIRE WHISKY / Land of Whisky
adress :
Lagavulin Whisky Distillery, Port Ellen, Islay, PA42 7DZ Argyll
