Richard-ModernDrinking
Lagavulin 9 Year (Game of Thrones-House Lannister)
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
February 2, 2019 (edited December 31, 2020)
If you’ve ever been held up in Canada by an accident involving a truck load of pigs and a maple syrup transporter*, prepare for a sensorial flashback: bacon, dark sugar and petrol waft out of the glass of this sprightly Lagavulin. And if an ice-cream truck was also involved in the aforementioned accident, then you’ll recognize the creamy vanilla that coats your throat on the finish. An excellent whisky that, along with the 8-year-old, suggests I may have a preference for youthful Lagavulin. Never has a highway disaster tasted so good.
*... and which of us hasn’t?
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@PBMichiganWolverine And for more than $500 at auction!
@Richard-ModernDrinking and to think this was well over $100 just one year ago
Amazingly, this has now been marked down to as low as $25 in California in a dragon-inspired fire sale. The cheapest retailer doesn’t ship out of state but I’ve ordered six bottles from one that does for only a little more. The whisky glut has begun!
Very good descriptors and review. Definitely paints the picture!
Nice review. I liked this one as well. Then again...can one ever go wrong with Lag?
Great review. I’m starting to think I got a bad bottle because I don’t recall getting a much richer profile like most. It’s a good thing I have a few more bottles to see if that’s actually the case, or if I just wasn’t feeling it that day. Cheers.
Great review! I have spent many a cold night in Buffalo, NY and feel your pain. Dram sounds tasty!