After I heard that it was even used Moscatel casks they got from Caol Ila I think even more that the price is a no-go. They talked quite frankly about it, it's sort of a trash reduction if you will, the task was to find a way to re-use the old casks the Classic Malt Distilleries used for making their Distillers' Editions. As I said before, I like the idea of that experiment, but please don't fool us, it is not an extraordinary super sophisticated special vatting, it's just basic 16-year-old having been put in casks which would otherwise have been trashed.

As for my rating, I'd love to put a review here, using the weighted rate function, unfortunately being mobile this doesn't work. So it's low 80s for the nose, a little above 90 for the initial taste, again low 80s for Body and Finish. 85 for the presentation and 50 for the price. In my mind that adds up to a 78.

Just thought about it, I can be quite frank, too. You take the stuff which has a street price of about 40,-€ to 50,-€, put it in the rubbish of a neighboring distillery and sell it to the enthusiasts at the festival for almost four times the price! 
And then you hear sentences like "it doesn't matter, we're gonna sell the stuff anyway." yeah right, you probably are...

[May, 2017]  Yes, the price of 125 GBP is way too high when looking at it from a drinkers' perspective only.  But at least they dry out the greedy resellers that usually bought this case-wise and sold it via the Internet while still on Islay.  No big business for them anymore, and most probably it is still available at the distillery after the Feis.  Good for everyone who likes to buy a bottle when on Islay and in this respect I am willing to pay this premium (nevertheless it would have been better if they had sticked to the old standard price of 99 GBP)...

PS:  Hopefully everybody that is dissatisfied with the price tag of this Lagavulin told this either Georgie or Donald face-to-face during the Feis.  I did...

[May, 2017]  I had several drams during the Feis Ile, e.g. at Georgie's Masterclass or Pinky's Warehouse tasting.

The colour is pale straw and the texture shows fast thick legs and slow tears.  The nose is very fresh on citric fruits (lemons, lime - that vanish after a while) and a bold phenolic smokiness.  After that a nice heather honey sweetness takes place joined by malty aromas.  The mouthfeel is warming and instantly coating with a slight drying feeling of cold ashes and copper.  The taste is quite sweet, malty and phenolic.  Again some drying notes but this time rather from tannins.  The finish is very long and nicely sweet without compromising the balance of sweetness, maltiness and phenolic smoke.  Some drops of water release a much better nose but the drying resp. bitter notes of the taste increase too.  So nose it with water, but drink it neat (You find this hard to do?  I agree, but simply use two glasses...).  

I tried to comprehend the tasting note of rottendon below but failed - obviously there is no accounting for taste...  This Lagavulin is certainly not the strongest of all the Feis Ile editions so far but nevertheless a very fine dram.  

When I heard about this whisky for the first time, I had the faint hope that its quality would go a bit towards the old Lagavulin 16 from its early days ... now this one is miles away and regardless of that, I find it right simple and not very complex. Good quality, nothing more!
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I wouldn't go as far as to think it's a horrible whisky made by detestable canards, but I do think finishing what tastes like a contemporary Lagavulin 12yo in moscatel casks brings absolutely nothing new or interesting to the table. A forgettable, unnecessary experiment. What you get is a nose very, very similar to Laga 12, with a damping layer of nondescript sweetness on top.