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.