Lagavulin 12 Year Old Special Releases 2008Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery Bottling 70cl 56. 4% A small batch Lagavulin 12 year old Islay single malt whisky released in 2008 at full cask strength for owner Diageo's annual Special Releases series. This Special Releases cask strength 12 year old Lagavulin from 2008 would have been distilled in the mid to late 1990s and these earlyish Special Release editions are well known among aficionados indeed, Lagavulin 12 year old has proven so

milk chocolate and underlying sweet spice aromas

Writers' Tears Double Oak is an Irish whiskey to savour

Glenfiddich Solera is a vatting of whiskies matured in sherry

rooty peat oils

oily and mineral driven old style Speysider with lots of white fruits

Series Cigar Malt

most of which were originally Oloroso or Pedro Ximenez sherry hogsheads and puncheons

Palate: Candied oranges with tropical fruits and a swirl of gentle peat smoke

Bruichladdich's Micro-Provenance series is designed 'to examine the evolutionary influences' of whisky

A highly desirable rare indie vintage Glenlivet 1980 24-year-old bottled at 46% from Cask 13741 in 2004 or 2005 by mail-order firm Direct Wines as part of their First Cask series - a blizzard of around 800 bottlings of top quality aged single malt that appeared between the late Nineties and early Noughties

pear tarte tatin and frangipane

Finished in a wine cask with an outturn of just 195 bottles at 54