Lagavulin 12-year-old

Overall rating: 88.95/100
votes: 437

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Lagavulin
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: 15th Release
Bottled: 2015
Stated Age: 12 years old
Casktype: Bourbon Oak Casks
Strength: 56.8 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 750 ml
Bottle code: L5133CM000
Barcode: 5000281041902
Added on: 19 Oct 2015 9:38 am by mds51

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€ 117,20

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Whisky Reviews for Lagavulin 12-year-old

83 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 88.95 points

Kumachan scored this whisky 91 points
01 Feb 2018 8:46 am
I loved it. A big whisky, fiery and complex. Dark and bright. Alcohol is perfectly integrated, it does not matter for a second. For lovers of powerful peat and marine, if you have not tried this version 12 years CS, run! The pleasure - price ratio is superb! Beside and despite its qualities, the 16-year-old does not hold the shock. If it had to be given a subjective note, it would be a 91.

Nose

Very light creamy yellow color, regular tears, fine, long and fast. After rubbing, a taste on the palm gives me a glimpse of a day when we decide to burn the branches and "bad" herbs of the garden, ashes, burnt wood, freshly mown grass, and cereals. A garage nose, motor oil, fat bike chain, hot metal and wet rock. The burnt land of peat, gasoline, grilled fish. The seaside is not far, iodine and seaweed accompanied by salt, white pepper and licorice. We leave this beautiful ocean world and burned to be carried by the breeze and spicy floral. Violet and blackcurrant bud, lemon and zest as well as dark chocolate. A beautiful nose composing a beautiful symphony of peat, flowers, spices and fruits.

Taste

It's dry and fat in the mouth. Very smoky, on ash, just burnt wood and coal. The distillate becomes round and sweet, the violet, spicy around curry and white pepper. The palate is hot and spicy. Lemon, but also a beautiful exoticism: pineapple and coconut. The metal and the wet rock offer a nice freshness. The finish is very oily, on bitter cocoa.

Finish

The final is long. The Lajaunie cachou, the ash and the beautiful pear Helen. The empty glass resonates on grilled / toasted, peat and lemon zest.
andreapalma83 scored this whisky 91 points
30 Apr 2019 7:31 pm

purchased online at the price of 80 euros excluding shipping costs:
nose: the coastal side of the distillery emerges immediately, more marked in this full-strength bottling than the basic version 16 yo, smell much more pronounced and intense, smoke, seaweed, peat, sea water, iodine and medicinal herbs
taste: 58 degrees incredibly and wonderfully disappear, pale gold color, first sip explosion of peat, tar, algae, sea salt, the strength of a wave and the sea foam on the Scottish cliffs, then the second sip gives way to a taste creamy, with hints of citrus, cedar, sometimes liquorice, cereals, wax,alcohol is aniway hidden by peat and the malt creaminess
Final: long,persistent, lasting, the taste remained on the palate for almost 30 minutes or more.
A giant, to have at all costs in your collection
tuemura scored this whisky 93 points
06 Oct 2017 9:49 pm

My favorite Lagavulin.
Marko_I did not rate this whisky
16 May 2017 10:12 pm
Ordentliche Kracher, also different / idiosyncratic enough to justify the individual releases. When it was still around the 50 ¬, that was a welcome addition to the quite narrow standard range, for today's 80-100 € Diageo can nail the neatly groomed knee.

Nose

Direct comparison 2015 vs. 2016: both very strong, crispy, biscuit, grainy-sweet, vanilla, some white pepper ... salt and smoke are more restrained (compared to 16-year standard bottling), '15 is heavier, sweeter and rounder with licorice and some ricola, '16 is a bit fresher and fruity, has a light apple and lemon twist and bites a bit more and is a bit ashier (Water play tries, but does not hurt very much, you should only if it is really too sharp)

Taste

both: very strong, lots of pepper, vanilla, malt, '15 is also sweeter here and looks fatter, fuller, darker, the ricola note is back, '16 is thinner, but also oily, is significantly sharper (white pepper) , rather bitter than sweet, wood, coffee, cough syrup, also smokier / ashier than '15

Finish

both long, hot and spicy, '15 rather black pepper, ricola, liquorice, '16 white pepper, coffee, camillan, wood
Gloin scored this whisky 83 points
29 Sep 2016 10:46 pm
The smell is very fresh and intense and makes me immediately think of wind on the North Sea beach - very nice.
Then comes the frontal attack on the mouth, the degree of astringency scrapes on the border of tolerability.
The finish then shows some mercy again. A very powerful whisky that explores and sometimes crosses borders. I'm impressed, if a bit humiliated. A true giant.

Nose

Sweet, smoke, some tangerine, orange, then medicinal, disinfectant, slightly sour, menthol, fresh, sea breeze

Taste

The light body weighs me to safety, but then the Lagavulin hits. The mouth begins to glow, strong astringent, the mouth becomes furry, almost deafened, after a long moment it is then sweet and the smoke shows.
In the second sip it becomes something (but only slightly) gentler, some oak, milk chocolate, some caramel, in the background always smoke

Finish

In the finish the whisky leaves me out of the sweatbox and I can breathe again. Bittersweet it sticks to the palate, aniseed, bitter herbs, sage and burned oak. Long.
Gaija scored this whisky 92 points
29 Aug 2016 9:06 pm
This is the kind of wonderful dram where words write themselves. Flabbergasting in quality and is definitely very fairly priced for what it offers.

Nose

Textbook Lagavulin green
olives, coming with the expected yet luscious combo of fish oil, acrylic paint, hot tar, anchovies. Medicinal subtle spice, camphor, slight sulphur and huge peanut butter. Everything in its right place. Something about warm vegetables is coming … think ratatouille ! Paprika, chickpeas, some kind of delicious Chinese broth. Thought I was done with this nose, it evolves again : bright puffs of vanilla soufflé, white chocolate, almonds, fresh rum and dairy cream … this is cask strenght eggnog ! Brilliant ! After yet some more time, an ethereal fruitiness appears. Macadamia nuts and wild strawberries on a bed of old rubber and wet pine needles. Holy shit.

Taste

I could describe how amazing this palate is
without even mentioning tastes because it is texturally and
"alcoholically" per-fect. Not a single burn at this proof, one of the most velvety texture I ever encountered. Exotic woods, custardy side again, sardines, walnut oil and paprika. Wet gravel under a summer sun. Coal, then something like a platter of the freshest seafood. Greengage and coconut to add some of these American oak yellow fruits again. Lovely.

Finish

Compact yet everlasting … Prawns, caraway seeds, shy strawberries, humus and beechnuts (you know, the ones we used to eat while we were walking in the woods on a rainy autumn day ?). Some green spiciness emerges, wasabi, coriander, gets quite medicinal again with dried raspberries, leather, unripe pears and … back on our green olives. The cycle is complete.
rottendon scored this whisky 92 points
27 May 2016 6:00 pm
The 12-year-old expression is always impressive, as well as this, which is clearly one of the better.

Nose

First, minerals and iodine, some grapefruit, the smoke is in the background, although a slightly salty BBQ note is already to be guessed. After a while, a nice toffee note develops, which perfectly harmonizes with the still very minerally dry character. A little more time and leather, floor wax and even some freshly ground coffee complete the bouquet. On the other hand, notes of fresh, ripe fruit, peaches, pears and pineapple flash from time to time. Then roasted marshmallows and beef jerky again. You really can not have hunger here. Incredible, freshly grilled burger with sweet relish. Heated, he goes more to the fruity side, with honey, grilled bacon with mango chutney.

Taste

On the tongue it is really great, strong without burning with grilled marshmallows, again bacon, dark toffee, coffee drops and behind out a pleasant bitterness, integrated in eucalyptus. A big movie theater!

Finish

The bitterness also determines the finish, which is relatively short and salty at the end, after the mineral notes dominate again in the middle.
Opeth83 scored this whisky 90 points
31 Jan 2016 2:19 pm
Really one of the best releases of 2015, I think my memory is also better than 2014, I bought a bottle.
- Nose
  
  92 92
- Taste
  
  90 90
- Finish
  
  92 92
gaboruso scored this whisky 90 points
20 Sep 2019 10:26 pm
Nose

89 89

Taste

90 90

Finish

90 90
drkrylov scored this whisky 92 points
20 Jun 2019 7:34 pm
Nose

85 85

Very sooty, warm lemon rather than zestiness. Warming, rounded wood spice. Water livens up proceedings.

Taste

95 95

Plenty of peat smoke, oatcakes and salted caramel richness.

Finish

95 95

Dry and sooty.

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