Lagavulin 1979 MM The Syndicate's
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Lagavulin |
| Bottler | Murray McDavid (MM) |
| Bottling Series | The Syndicate's |
| Vintage | 1979 |
| Bottled Year | 2009 |
| Age | 40년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 49.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
짙은 호박빛이 잔 속에 잔잔히 잠겨 있어 1979년에 증류된 라가불린 원액이 40년을 견딘 무게를 그대로 보여준다. 노즈에는 진한 피트 연기와 짭조름한 바닷바람, 마른 가죽 향이 묵직하게 드러난다. 입에서는 그을린 베이컨과 다크 초콜릿, 옅은 자두가 두꺼운 질감으로 흐르고 49.1도의 알코올이 단단한 골격을 받친다. 아일라 남부 라가불린의 진중한 매연이 길고 깊은 여운으로 머문다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
deep gold
air Nose
a fragrant and beautifully honeyed kind of peat. Gives this great impression of oiliness and viscosity. You also get these beautifully complex notes of toasted black pepper, smoked green tea, natural tar extracts, lamp oil, hessian and candied citrus peels. Hints of smoked paprika, petrol, embrocations and old ink. Like some other older official Lagavulins (thinkings the 30 and 37yo Special Releases) this has the same quality of deep and wayward complexity that leads you down many tangential and tertiary paths. There’s olives, gentian root, many herbal and medical notes and a beautiful array of coastal incursions. All the while this very mature, honeyed profile - which wouldn’t be out of place in a very old Glen Grant for example - is ever-present
restaurant Palate
dry, tautly structured, herbaceous and stunningly complex. Many herbal and smoked teas, cured meats, salted liquorice, precious hardwood resins, eucalyptus, tea tree oil, camphor, vapour rubs, iodine, more of these natural tar notes and smoked mineral oil. Still immensely fresh, vibrant and ‘together’. There’s no sense of diminishment from the age or wood. In fact the wood stays a respectable distance throughout, just delivering this perfect nibble of spice round the edges
timer Finish
very long, full of hessian and this rather textural, ropey, leathery kind of peat. Lots of black olive, dried seaweed, smoked mint and eucalyptus oil