Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Mid amber-gold with warm copper hints; the sherry butt influence adds warmth compared to pure refill bourbon CS12s
Nose
Released exclusively at Lagavulin's Feis Ile open day — always a mixed-cask variant that shows a different side of the distillery than the standard CS12. This release combines refill bourbon and European oak sherry — marrying the CS12's bright peat with darker sherry fruit. Dry peat, dark fruit (fig, prune), dark chocolate, and sea salt. Vanilla and citrus from bourbon balanced by toffee and dried fruit from sherry. Rich and complex
Palate
The mixed cask approach creates a fascinating bridge between the bourbon-only CS12 and the DE's full PX treatment. Dry ashy peat smoke, dark dried fruit, dark chocolate, and sea salt. Vanilla and lemon from bourbon casks. Toffee and figs from sherry butts. The two cask types create beautiful tension — brightness vs darkness, citrus vs dried fruit. Cask strength delivers full power. More complete than a single-cask-type expression
Finish
Long finish with interwoven peat, dark fruit, and sea salt. The bourbon brightness and sherry richness alternate through the finish. Dark chocolate and vanilla on the tail. A festival exclusive that showcases Lagavulin's full range in a single glass
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
Refill bourbon hogsheads and European oak sherry butts
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