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Lagavulin 16 Year
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
December 13, 2019 (edited August 4, 2020)
This bottle was gifted after a year it's been open.
Palette has plastic notes in it. Not a fan of this flagship distillery choice.
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@CKarmios almost certainly. I’m waiting to try their younger expressions and someday a fresh 16 and compare notes
If the bottle was opened a year prior to tasting, it might explain your disappointment with this dram. From my own experience, a bottle's nose and/or palate will change, more often for the worse, if left sitting for more than six months after it's been opened. I found the change more pronounced with bottles that are less than a third full. Also, I tasted a faint cardboardy note in a Jura once, traced it back to cork action; could your plastic notes have come from something similar?