Producing WhiskyCast has given me the opportunity to taste some really amazing whiskies, and I’m pleased to share my tasting notes with you here. You can search my entire database of tasting notes from this page, and I hope you’ll find it useful.
Lagavulin’s annual Feis Ile bottling for the Islay Festival of Malt & Music each May traditionally sells out on the festival’s opening day. 6,000 bottles were produced for the 2016 festival from a combination of ex-Sherry and refill American Oak casks.
The nose has a light smokiness with sweet notes of honey, brown sugar, heather, and butterscotch that don’t give any hints of what’s coming. The taste is smoky, peppery, and thick with a strong peatiness, a hint of iodine, wet briny sand, peppercorns, honey, and a touch of butterscotch that starts to come out as the smoke begins to fade. The finish has a lingering smokiness to balance the butterscotch along with touches of brine and honey. Wow! (October, 2016)
Lagavulin’s annual Feis Ile bottling for the Islay Festival of Malt & Music each May traditionally sells out on the festival’s opening day. 6,000 bottles were produced for the 2016 festival from a combination of ex-Sherry and refill American Oak casks.
