Lagavulin 12 Year (2020 Special Release)

Nose: 2.5/5 Taste: 3/5 Finish: 3.5/5

If you have an opportunity to grab this bottle, don't let it slip away

Really nice dram. The cask strength gives some nice kick, but it feels much lighter than it is, and it’s surprisingly drinkable. It’s much lighter bodied and colored than the 16 for instance. The nose is floral, smoky, smoldering, a bit oceanic, and has some fruitiness. Pleasant flavor with some sweetness, a lot of oily texture and taste, some ash, and spice.

Delicious

Lagavulin meaty, roasted, smokey, thick, high peps, nail polish 2.75 intense lemon zest, pear, fruity, red grapes berries, cherry, bitterness in the aftertaste but bareable and its an interesting contrast 3 long sustained oaky 2.75 2.75 Malty thick creamy texture sweetness pungent damp earthy 3.5 Burn and strong young whisky. Much complexity and oily nutty richness medicinal 2.25 Kong Smokey 3 2.75 in spirit of lagavulin, powerful statement at the start with a strong mix of smoked salmon + campfire peat, tobacco, for a high abv of 56% you dont feel the hit on the nose, slight chocolate, nearer into the dram and you will get quite hard hit of pep, no detection of sweetness or floral notes... mjuch more of a smoke and spice hit 3 damnnnnnnn, powerful powerful complexity and oiliness coats your mouth from front to back you get a kick of nuttiness, tea, earthy forest floor, campfire, bitterness, ccreramy, rich texture, finish is long - a little heavy on the bitterness towards the tail end with heavy influence of oak 2.5 you will get a hit of long campfire sustain, bitter aftertaste though 2 2.5

Classic Lagavulin flavors. Very boozy at 54% alcohol. Good stuff.

Very smoky aftertaste! Smells good though