Lagavulin reviews

I don't often get a bunch of different Lagavulins in the house (though I have stored away the 1979 and 1980 DEs!), so let's try both the new 200th Anniversary 8 Year Old, and the new 2015 12 Year Old,…

I’ve decided not to score this. Only because I will cheapen the memories by assigning it a score. And since there is no way anyone is ever going to drink this whisky a score is pretty much moot.And don’t…

Did you know that until 1987 the Lagavulin 12 was actually their standard bottling? Some thirty years ago the 16 Year Old came in its stead and should be present in every bar. This is truly the quinte…

I confess, when I first heard that Lagavulin would release an 8 years old whisky for their 200th Anniversary, I was quite sceptic. Especially with Lagavulin 16 being such a classic… and cheaper than this…

With Lagavulin’s 200th birthday drawing near and with many of the fans concerns were growing: would Diageo would make us pay dearly for the jubilee edition, are they cocky enough to force a NAS down our…

26 is my favourite number, and not, I repeat not just because it is the date in April of Carol Burnett's birth.So I chose a whisky that I was pretty sure I was going to like for my 26th in my series of…

I decided to give this much-talked about whisky at one of the local bars. The place was loud, and so was this whisky...NOSE: complex Demerara sugar sweetness with that lovely bacon smokiness and a touch…

As everybody interested in single malts knows by now, this 8-year old bottling was released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Lagavulin distillery in 1816. It was inspired by the…

For our trip to Islay for the whisky festival this year I ended up getting t-shirts printed with emblazoned on the front and the words printed on the back.Other than shameless self-promotion the idea…

It was raining when we landed in Islay. Cold and persistent. It was a day before the whisky festival was about to start and things were looking damp. When you live in a place like Dubai where they act…