Lagavulin 12 Year (2018 Special Release)

On The nose it smells just like a Lagavulin should do and very good notes. A few drops of water doesent hurt.

Clear light gold. Aromatic oily smoky malt biscuits, cedar leaves, iodine brine, campfire, smoked herbs in nose. Super strong peated smoky dominant. Campfire, healiy burned maple wood, salty oily rich smoky malt biscuits, and sweet smoky maltose in the aftertaste. Just not as sweet as the benriach curious 10, nor the balanced complexity of the ardbeg corryvreckan, but like a go-getter fresh man directly from the island.

Nose; the room smelled like fire after opening this. Sherry, smoke, apple crumble. Oak and vanilla. Taste; charred fruit, and peat dominate the show here. It's good. Hot and spicy. 9.2/10

Nose: Honeyed cereal grain, roasted nuts, peat, thin wisps of smoke. Gros Michele banana. Iodine, brine. Slight peppermint. Alcohol is present. Bacon. Palate: Cereal grains - almost like oatmeal with brown sugar. Peat, smoke. Banana. Peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich. Mint. Barrel. Alcohol effervescence. Oily, coating on the tongue. Solid finish. The proof shows up and helps showcase everything else going on.

It's my first Lagavulin 12, and the sensation brought me back to the very first time I had Lagavulin 16, about 10 years ago.