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Lagavulin

Lagavulin
11 Year Old Sweet Peat Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Islay Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
93 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$69

Lagavulin
11 Year Old Sweet Peat Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Islay Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
Amber color. Aromas and flavors of campfire, brisket burnt ends, cigar ash, and grilled peaches with an dry medium-full body and a warming, complex, very long finish that exhibits accents of ancho chile, buckwheat honey, burnt orange, and forest floor. This velvet hammer beautifully balances a powerfully complex and nuanced smoky nose with a silky palate and long, seamless finish.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Rich & Full
Aroma Aroma: campfire, brisket burnt ends, cigar ash, and grilled peaches
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with accents of ancho chile, buckwheat honey, burnt orange, and forest floor
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Enjoy Enjoy: on the rocks, neat, with cigars and in cocktails
Cocktail Cocktails: Brown Derby, Bobby Burns, Blood & Sand
Bottom Line Bottom Line: This velvet hammer beautifully balances a powerfully complex and nuanced smoky nose with a silky palate and long, seamless finish.

The Producer or Importer

Diageo North America

The Producer or  Importer
530 Fifth Avenue #4
New York, NY 10036
USA
1 646-223-2000

Islay Single Malt Scotch

Spirits Glass Glencairn Scotch Copper.jpg
Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
Islay is an island off the west coast. Traditional Islay malt whiskies are intensely smoky and pungent in character with a distinctive iodine or medicinal tang that is said to come from sea salt permeating the local peat that is used to dry the barley malt.

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