Lagavulin 1979 MM Mission - Selection Number Two
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Lagavulin |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | Mission - Selection Number Two |
| Vintage | 1979 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 24년 |
| Cask Type | Oak |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | Jim McEwan Signature |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Jim McEwan Signature
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale amber
air Nose
as big as you can get at 43%. Old school peat slapped on with a trowel. Black pepper, coal embers, soot, roof pitch and buckets of tar. Feels even more ‘old school’ than the 12 yo versions; I’m reminded of a certain 14yo Laphroaig bottled in the 1950s here. Brilliantly herbal, tarry, earthy, phenolic and full of this wonderfully greasy, textural peatiness
restaurant Palate
Indeed, this is old, old stuff. Hugely peaty, grizzly herbal bitters, smoked peppercorns, natural tar extracts, industrial cough medicines, ointments, vapour rubs and hessian. Simple in many ways, but beautifully so and with devastating poise and power
timer Finish
long, leafy, drying, herbal, tarry, earthy peat smoke. A briny splosh of seawater in the aftertaste
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