
2010 Lagavulin Cask Strength Special Release 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)
Lagavulin, pronounced 'Lagga-voolin' (meaning 'the hollow where the mill is')   is perhaps the most assertive,  complex and intensely dry of all the Islay malts. The distillery's water is sourced from a nearby stream while its maturation  warehouses are so close to the sea to be frequently knee-high in salt water.  Larch wood  washbacks and individual onion-shaped stills with unique steep  swan-necked lye pipes are used which the distillers claim profoundly affect the  taste and refuse to change in any way.   
This unusual, 12 year old natural cask strength bottling delivers a typical Lagavulin flavour profile, without the intensity of the now familiar 16 Year Old. Unfiltered.
 
Other Reviews: 
(94.5 Points) n23.5, t24, f23.5, b23.5 - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2013. 
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