Lagavulin 8 Year Old Isngle Malt Whisky 700ml
KShs 13,000
Lagavulin is known as one of the most intense, smoky single malt whiskies ever made. With a light body that becomes pleasantly oily, the Lagavulin 8-Year-Old palate boasts a magnificently full-on Lagavulin taste that’s somehow even bigger than you expect.
- Country: Scotch Whisky
- Region: Islay Whisky
- Distillery / Brand: Lagavulin
- Bottler: Lagavulin
- Age: 8 year old Whisky
- Style: Single Malt Whisky
- Alcohol: 48.0%
In stock
Lagavulin 8 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky is big and smoky, with sweet spice that becomes apparent with a drop of water. Inspired by the visit of Alfred Barnard to the distillery in the 1880’s when he tried an ‘exceptionally fine’ eight-year-old from the distillery, this is a fitting tribute.
If you feel like broadening your horizons and experiencing Lagavulin as you never have before, then we heavily recommend The Lagavulin Hot Chocolate. We know that this may not appeal to some, but honestly you really should give it a try because it’s absolutely gorgeous.
Lagavulin 8 Year Old Tasting Notes
APPEARANCE
Light-gold.
BODY
Light, growing pleasantly oily.
NOSE
Immediately quite soft with clean, fresh notes, faint hints of milk chocolate and lemon and then developing fragrant tea-scented smoke alongside nose-drying, maritime aromas, with subtle cereal. A prickliness seen earlier now develops, while the trademark Lagavulin dryness emerges as fresh newsprint. Softly sooty. Softer, fuller and more rounded with water: it’s not hugely fruity but there’s just a trace of red berry preserve, perhaps, beneath the smokiness, which comes sharply into focus.
PALATE
A soothing light texture, with a magnificently full-on Lagavulin taste that’s somehow even bigger than you expect; sweet, smoky and warming, with a growing, smoky pungency, then dry, with more smoke. Charred, with minty, dark chocolate. Beautifully balanced midpalate then salty, oven-charred baked potato skins and smoke. Water rounds things, the taste still mighty yet more succulent, sweeter, spicier and now tongue-tingling, mint-fresh and warming.
FINISH
Lovely; clean, very long and smoky. Smoothly, subtle minted smoke surrounds chocolate tannins, leaving a late drying note to emerge in time. It’s warming, soft and still smoky with water, not as long or intense now, yet still leaving the palate dry as sweet smoke lingers on the breath.
Serving Suggestion: Make time to enjoy neat in a whisky nosing glass, or with maybe just a drop of water.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.