LAGAVULIN™ launches limited edition 2017 Jazz bottling
Lagavulin today launches its brand new limited edition Single Malt Scotch whisky release, Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival 2017.
6000 bottles are being produced following the popularity of previous Jazz festival bottlings. The whisky is a blend of refill American oak hogsheads and first fill American oak standard barrels and is bottled at natural cask strength.
RRP: £99
ABV: 57.6%
Available from: only available to purchase at Lagavulin distillery
in brief… Initial blast of smoke gives way to a deep oily/tar background, sweet raisin and dried fruits along with hints of almond & brazil nuts and a white pepper, ashy background
Georgie Crawford, distillery manager at Lagavulin distillery adds: “It’s been a special time for Lagavulin, as in 2016 we celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the distillery. This Jazz bottling is set to be another sell-out edition marking one of the best and busiest times on Islay.”
No other spirit offers the same breadth and depth of flavours as Scotch. It truly is the world’s favourite whisky and the annual Islay Jazz festival is a key moment in the whisky calendar to bring together Scotch lovers from all corners of the globe.
The limited edition Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival 2017 release has syrupy notes of dried banana with the definitive Lagavulin bonfire smoke in the background. Once mixed with water, the initial blast of smoke gives way to maritime notes, sweet raisin, dried fruits and almonds, with hints of white pepper and tobacco in the background.
Bottles will be available for sale only to visitors at the Lagavulin Distillery from 15th September at an RRP of £99. Due to the popularity of the Jazz bottling, customers are limited to 2 bottles per person.
NOTES
Tasting notes:
Neat – Syrup/fruity, dried banana, wet bonfire smoke in the background.
With Water – Initial blast of smoke gives way to a deep oily/tar background/seaweed of the beach/iodine, sweet raisin/dried fruits, jammy. Hints of almond & brazil nuts Pears soap/medicinal, hints of smoked ham. Fresh fruit way in the white pepper/ ashy background.
Taste – Immediate smoke burst that mellows to a sweet ripe apple, ashy/tobacco.
The origins of Lagavulin:
Local records suggest that Lagavulin was already a centre of whisky production in the early 18th century.
So there had almost certainly been many other illicit stills before John Johnston founded the first legal distillery at Lagavulin Bay in 1816. As with all Scottish distilleries, it passed through the hands of different owners, including the celebrated Sir Peter Mackie, whose company became White Horse Distillers, forever associated with Lagavulin. White Horse joined The Distillers Company Ltd. (eventually Diageo) in 1927. In 1989, Lagavulin, now normally bottled at 16 years rather than the original 12, became one of the six Classic Malts of Scotland™.
About Diageo:
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