Lagavulin 1981 18 Years The Distillers Edition 2000 3rd Special Release lgv.4/465 Double matured in Pedro Ximenez Sherry Wood Islay Single Malt Whisky 43.0% Vol. - very rare old 1.0l bottling of a stunning Lagavulin Islay Single Malt!
A very rare and magnificent vintage 1981 18 year old Lagavulin Double Matured Distillers Edition Special Release Islay Single Malt Scotch whisky and the 3rd edition of the Lagavulin Distillers Edition Special release from the year 2000 as a 1.0 litre bottling. This nearly 19-year-old Lagavulin Islay single malt Scotch whisky from the Classic Malts selection by Islay legend Lagavulin was distilled in the year 1981 and matured for up to 2 years in European Pedro Ximenez sherry oak casks - these give the whisky more fruit, such as sultanas and dried fruit, and a syrupy character. The bottling took place in the millennium year 2000 at 43.0% vol. and the batch number lgv.04/465 under the direction of distillery manager Donald Renwick.Genial and sophisticated, this exceptional Vintage 1981 18 Years Lagavulin Islay Single Malt Scotch whisky delivers with elegance and style the special Lagavulin intensity of the old bottlings from the 1970s and early 1980s. With its deep amber colour, this Lagavulin Islay single malt Scotch whisky shows its complexity and maturity, combined with a rich nose of nuts, dried fruit, plums, figs, chocolate, tobacco, sherry, spices, dark honey, wild berries, caramel, toffee, coffee, fine peat and smoke with a hint of leather, the flavour is round, oily and intense with spices, milk chocolate, tobacco, peat, smoke, subtle sweetness, sherry, nutmeg, nuts and dark honey. The finish of the vintage 1981 18 years Lagavulin Distillers Edition 2000 Islay Single Malt Scotch whisky is long and warm with iodine, salt, oysters, some smoke, tobacco, sherry wood and coffee - a great Lagavulin Islay single malt of times gone by!
This early expression from the Lagavulin Distillers Edition series and old bottling is one of the particularly rare old bottlings from Lagavulin today - the Lagavulin Distillers Edition Special Release bottlings from 1979 to 1981 are among the absolute rarities on the market with their longer maturation in sherry casks and the old casks with the special flavours.
A great and particularly successful vintage 1981 18 years Lagavulin Islay Single Malt Scotch whisky from the fabulous Lagavulin Distillers Edition Special Release 2000 series by Diageo as a rare 1.0 litre bottling for connoisseurs, discerning whisky collectors and lovers of fine old Scotch whiskies, which is hard to find today!
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Islay
- Vintage: 1981
- Age: 18-19 years old
- Year Bottled: 2000
- Cask Wood Type: Double matured in Pedro Ximenez Sherry Wood
- Alcohol ABV% 43.0
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1981 Distillers Edition Special Release Limited 2000 Edition - Batch No. lgv. 4/465
- Bottle Size 100cl / 1000ml
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces)
- Producer/Importeur: Lagavulin Distillery, Port Ellen Isle of Islay PA42 7DZ, Scotland
- Country of Origin: Scotland
- limited, number unknown - rare old bottling and special collector´s whisky!
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