Although Lagavulin was founded in 1816 at Lagavulin Bay on the island of Islay (eye-la), at least 10 illegal distilleries had been on the same site since 1742. The whisky at Lagavulin undergoes the longest distillation of all the Islay malts: 5 hours for the first distillation and 9 hours for the second.
Tastings from 03/07/12 - SMAC Session #3
Asterisk denotes preference of neat or with water.
NEAT
Ross
Nose: Peat, Apple, Iodine, Vague Chloroform, almost Caramelised Brown Sugar
1st: Light Peat, Smoky, Honey
2nd: Fire, Nutty
3rd: Aniseed
Overall: Full, Round
Brad
Nose: Salt, Apple, Iodine, Golden Syrup
1st: Caramel
2nd: Butter
Finish: Aniseed, Earl Grey Tea, doesn't linger
Alex
Nose: Very Salty, Fumes, Iodine
1st: Aniseed
Finish: Warmth
Dan S
Nose: Sweet Cream, Marinated Artichoke (Salty), Iodine, Sweet/Salt Balanace, Butter, Brown Sugar, Caramel, Aniseed, Marzipan, Medicine
1st: Thin
Finish: Aniseed
Gavin
Nose: Peaty, Salty, Iodine, Brown Sugar, Aniseed
1st: Smoky, Peaty, Cut Grass
2nd: Acrid, Coffee
Finish: Smoky, Peaty, Aniseed
WITH A SPLASH OF WATER
Ross *
Nose: Much lighter, Iodine, underlying Malt
1st: Very Round, Clean, Warm, easy to drink
2nd: Dried Apricots, Prunes
3rd: Light Peat, Nutty
After: Honey
Brad *
Nose: Iodine, Malt, Fennel
1st: Smoked Salmon, Fennel
2nd: Pink Grapefruit
Finish: Cinnamon Sugar, Peat
Overall: Great winter scotch!
Alex *
Nose: Iodine
1st: Power, Circulating Fumes
2nd: Bitter
3rd: Fumes, Power, Bitter, Smooth, doesn't linger
Dan S *
Nose: Iodine (childhood knee scrapes)
1st: Peat
2nd: Dried Apricot, Prune, Iodine
3rd: Peat, Honey (Dark Resins)
Gavin *
Nose: Iodine, Medicinal, Dried Apricot, Herbal (Fennel)
1st: Peaty, Grassy
2nd: Golden Syrup
Finish: Peaty, Grapefruit Bitterness (Hops)
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