Lagavulin 12, 2011, 57.5% abv.

Nose: generally sweet, wood, smoke, salty, cereal, light fruit, grapes, grass. With time the smoke, salt, light fruit, and grassy aromas stay, but crayons and stale bread appear.

Palate: light to medium body, fruity sweet, initial palate is spicey and smokey, mid palate has a sweet and salty wood develop like a forest gone haywire, minty and cinnamon here and there, white sugar, some Washington red apples, back palate is slightly bitter, like chewing on paper and cardboard, generally white sugar, smoked grapevines.

Finish: medium, mellowed cinnamon spice.

A little plain relative to other Laga 12s, very straightforward profile that is perhaps more similar to a mellowed standard Laga. Time doesn't really help either.

Grade: B-

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