Lagavulin Feis Ile 2021 Single Malt Scotch Whisky 56.1% 70cl

A limited-edition 13-year-old Lagavulin single malt, finished in American oak ex-port casks and bottled for the 2021 Feis Ile festival. The palate offers notes of rich smoke, creamy vanilla, sweet spices and port-soaked fruit that lingers in the finish.

Distillery Notes:

• APPEARANCE Clear gold with amber lights. Fine beading and long, slow legs.
• BODY Medium to full.
• NOSE Mild overall, with some prickle. A fleeting sweet top note of candied chestnuts soon settles into more familiar suggestions of linament and an oily mineral note. This last takes hold, becoming a sweet pungency. Water brings it out as linseed oil with thick, fragrant smoke in the classic Lagavulin vein, edged here by dark hints of char.
• PALATE At natural strength, the texture is thick and oil-smooth, while the taste is intense; it is fleetingly sweet then piquant with spice that quickly rises in importance, as rich waves of smoke, salt and hot pepper take over. Noticeably palate-drying. Superbly full on at natural strength. A dash of water smooths it out, in time emphasising the spicy dryness, which is still backed by a smoky intensity.
• FINISH Long, still intensely piquant and appreciably drying, with that pepper-spice warmth leaving a delicious nutty and smoky aftertaste.- Lagavulin