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Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival 2021

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This rather special single malt Lagavulin was bottled to commemorate the Islay Jazz Festival 2021. Initially matured in refill American oak it was then finished in ex-Mezcal American standard barrels. Bottled at natural cask strength, 54.8% vol.

Distillery

Lagavulin

Age

13

Region

Islay

ABV (Strength)

54.8

Bottling Date

2021

Cask Type

Refill American Oak | Ex-Mezcal

Bottle Size

70cl

No. of Bottles

2021

Series

Islay Jazz Festival

Style

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Tasting Notes

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Tasting Notes

Nose: A forward nose, with quite some prickle. A pungent, distinctive and unusual smoky-meaty top note. Pork chops on a hickory-chip barbecue slathered in chipotle sauce. Below this, the familiar Lagavulin linseed oil, and more fragrant smoke. Water brings up much more, increasingly perfumed wood smoke. 

Palate: At natural strength, really smooth and rich in texture and immediately sweet-savoury in taste, then quickly more and more smoky and warming, as spicy waves of barbecue hickory wood smoke sweep over the palate to reveal a growing smoke-dried Jalapeno pepper heat. Water softens the texture and dulls the heat; still sweet overall, but the fire is subdued now. 

Finish: Long, smoky and drying, as more than a little of that chilli heat lingers with the smoke in a pleasing and fiercely warming finale. Similar but lighter with water.

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