N: Young peat. A bit of cow stable. Some smoked meat/ham/salmon. Curred cheese. Reminds me of Caol Ila Moch.

Some sigarette ash and some sweetness.

T: Very light arrival. Instantly drying, ashy. Sweet peaty taste, cow stable.

F: Surprisingly easy. A bit sweet, curred cheese, some ashes. A bit of pepper that fades quickly.

Nice peaty fix, but nothing special.

N: I had the 46% version WB which was very decent so there's much hope for this CS batch. Super nose here, namely a soapy, oily, waxy, lemony, sour=sweet malt with seemingly good age to it. its only a 5yo according to the managing director at the VMWC Andrew Crook, but it could pass for ten. The peat is farmy like hard-white, cows=goats cheese, theres a little vegetal and sweetcorn too. Hmm, waxy and later very buttery.
T: Peated, barley-spirit with a fruity=bonfire-burned sweetcorn=celery, [Octomore] vegetal character.
F: Vegetal-fresh whilst the peat=malt is maintained. Very controlled, well balanced.
C: This is a culmination of twenty casks which has created a fine, perfectly neat dram. Anything wrong with it? I might tire of it, but i’m willing to find out.

Scores a B [87]

Almost inedible after opening the bottle.
After 1 short year now finally drinkable with pleasure.
So far my only bottle with such an evolutionary development ... 10.04.16: Half bottle was deposited (and almost forgotten) in cellar now for more than one year. It's now when I can comprehend the notes of my foreposters.

good lagavulin price/quality 89points

I'm not quite sure if the bottling date (2013) mentioned above is correct or in accordance with the bottle picture.
To my knowledge, Finlaggan has been bottled into clear glass bottles with the blue-ish labels much longer than that.
In my collection I do have a 2010 bottling which has the same looks as the image above.

As far as the taste is concerned, it's pretty obvious that this is not Lagavulin.
Caol Ila would be one of the next usual suspects, but underneath the strong layers of peat, especially when adding enough water, I find layers of fruits, bananas maybe. So my guess would rather be peated Bunnahabhain.
Anyway, a nice peaty dram for its money and certainly one for "water experiments"...

nose Smoky, young, metallic, but acceptable at 58% vol, pickled green peppers, pepper, behind it ex-bourbon sweetness, despite the youth substance, cinnamon, citric acid, something soapy
taste Rasser, smoky and cool onset, the 58% are surprisingly pleasant, more mature than the nose suggests, creamy, woody spiciness, pepper, unripe lemon, nice caramel sweetness, slightly sugary, alcoholic
leaving Medium, covered, cold smoke, some American oak
Young stuff, no question, the smoke and the 58% vol help over it, even the obviously not so bad barrels. If you are in the mood for something really smoky, just the thing. For the price (30-35 €) unreservedly recommendable.
Edit: Is now a time open, with a good sip of water shows that here good, active barrels were involved, grape juice, green apple, barely metallic, 84 to 85 pts  

Color: White wine

Nose: Gives a very clean influence. The peatsmoke covers nearly everything. There's a very slight hint of lemon, kiwi and oak. Iodine as well. After a while some slight sherry notes reveal themselves.

Palate: Ash, tar and peat get the forefront, if you didn't realise by now, this is screaming Islay. Quite salty and hints of lemon peel. I had a bit of a soapy note as well. You can tell this is a young one.

Finish: Impressivly long for such a young whisky, the cask strength definitely helps here. Some soapy notes but mostly barbecue smoke.

This is a decent Islay whisky, especially if you consider the price. A good one to get acquainted with heavily peated malt, but a bit one-dimensional. http://whiskyinformer.com/home/finlaggan-cask-strength

i think this is the best finlaggan ...the 2013 bottling.

A powerful peat dominates the nose of candied lemon, seaweed and cowshed. Mouth powerful, peaty, explosive, smoke, iodine and a little sugar. Long finish on peat smoke. Excellent q / p.