Lagavulin 8 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky - 70cl
Founded in 1816 near Port Ellen on the southern shore of Islay, Lagavulin produces one of the most intensely peated spirits in all of Scotland — and the benchmark against which all heavily peated single malts in the world are ultimately measured. The 8 Year Old was first produced as a limited release for the Feis Ile Islay Festival and quickly became one of the most sought-after expressions in the range — its youthful intensity and vibrant, unrefined peat character offering a fascinatingly different perspective on the distillery's spirit compared to the more settled and integrated 16 Year Old. Bottled at 48% ABV, non-chill filtered, natural colour. Available to buy online in Singapore from The Liquid Collection — an essential Lagavulin experience for any Islay enthusiast.
TASTING NOTES
Nose: Immediately quite soft with clean, fresh notes, faint hints of milk chocolate and lemon and then developing fragrant tea-scented smoke alongside nose-drying, maritime aromas, with subtle cereal. A prickliness seen earlier now develops, while the trademark Lagavulin dryness emerges as fresh newsprint. Softly sooty. Softer, fuller and more rounded with water: it’s not hugely fruity but there’s just a trace of red berry preserve, perhaps, beneath the smokiness, which comes sharply into focus.
Palate: A soothing light texture, with a magnificently full-on Lagavulin taste that’s somehow even bigger than you expect; sweet, smoky and warming, with a growing, smoky pungency, then dry, with more smoke. Charred, with minty, dark chocolate. Beautifully balanced midpalate then salty, oven-charred baked potato skins and smoke. Water rounds things, the taste still mighty yet more succulent, sweeter, spicier and now tongue-tingling, mint-fresh and warming.
Finish: Lovely; clean, very long and smoky. Smoothly, subtle minted smoke surrounds chocolate tannins, leaving a late drying note to emerge in time. It’s warming, soft and still smoky with water, not as long or intense now, yet still leaving the palate dry as sweet smoke lingers on the breath.
ABV 48%
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1 Bottle x 70cl, 2 Bottles (Save $4.00) |
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