Lagavulin 9 Year (Game of Thrones-House Lannister)

Color: Bright Gold Nose: Smoke, butterscotch, licorice, spice/pepper, oak, banana, and caramel. Palate: Spice, peat, leather, toffee, licorice, smoke, and burnt marshmallow. Finish: Long, peat, spice, toffee, heather, and smooth smoke.

Floral forward with smokey peat after burn

It’s what you would expect from Lagavulin. Tasty af

Obviously a peaty nose, albeit not aggressive, with a significant marine and mineral component. Bacon and seaweed go hand in hand, along with honey and a delicate spicy note. An unexpected fruity sweetness appears, which over time softens peat, along with caramel. Everything is always very saline and mineral. The mouth confirms the fruity soul of the distillate, with yellow peach, blueberries, banana, a fruit salad scorched after a vigorous passage on the barbecue where grilled ribs were just cooked. Smoky fleshiness well highlighted, at times exuberant enough to cover the sweet side, which is also underlined by the strong maritime and vegetable component. Pepper and ginger. Also a few crumbs of toasted bread, just because it is young. Quite long finish, very marine, peppery and ashy. Young, certainly not very balanced, but perhaps for this reason also funny: a Lagavulin different from the usual, perhaps not excellent but more than enjoyable and cheerfully daredevil.