Lagavulin 8 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky - 70cl
Lagavulin 8 Year Old — a distinctive younger-tier Lagavulin originally released for the distillery's 200th anniversary in 2016 and now permanent in the range. Delivers Lagavulin's celebrated balanced Islay character with more youthful, direct intensity than the classical 16YO. Sold-out cult favourite when initially released.
Why you'll love it
- Refined peat smoke, warm honey, gentle citrus, elegant maritime character, youthful Lagavulin intensity — 8YO signature
- Originally 200th anniversary release (2016), now permanent core range
- Perfect for Lagavulin enthusiasts exploring the younger tier, Islay collectors, and considered sipping
- Presented in Lagavulin's distinctive 8 Year Old bottle
Perfect pairings
Excellent neat as a contemplation pour. Pairs beautifully with oysters, smoked salmon, or aged smoked cheese.
Perfect for
- Lagavulin enthusiasts exploring the younger age-stated tier
- Islay whisky collectors building the Lagavulin range
- Whisky drinkers curious about "young Lagavulin" character
- Introducing friends to Lagavulin at more accessible tier
Compare with
Interested in the classical 16YO? Try Lagavulin 16 Year Old ($144). Interested in Lagavulin 10 (travel retail)? Lagavulin 10 Year Old ($139).
Frequently asked
Why Lagavulin 8?
Originally released for Lagavulin's 200th anniversary in 2016 as a limited edition. Positive reception made it a permanent core-range addition. Represents Lagavulin at a younger age tier than the celebrated 16YO — more direct, less integrated.
Lagavulin 8 vs 16?
8YO is more youthful, direct, and peated-forward. 16YO is more integrated, balanced, and mature. Different tiers within Lagavulin's classical range — both distinctively Lagavulin character.
Who owns Lagavulin?
Diageo — the world's largest spirits company, which also owns Johnnie Walker, Talisker, Cardhu, and many other Scotch brands.
Quick facts
- Region: Islay, Scotland
- Distillery: Lagavulin (founded 1816)
- Age: 8 Years
- Owner: Diageo
- ABV: 48%
- Volume: 70cl
- Delivery: Free islandwide delivery across Singapore
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% ABV
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1 Bottle x 70cl, 2 Bottles (Save $4.00) |
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