Lagavulin 1993 The Managers‘ Choice 54.7% 0.7L

Lagavulin 1993/2009 The Managers‘ Choice

Diese Abfüllung wurde als Teil der Serie „The Managers‘ Choice“ in 2009 rausgebracht. Es handelt sich um ein Sherry-Einzelfass – für Lagavulin eine Besonderheit und mit nur 612 Flaschen ist das ein streng limitierter Whisky, der mittlerweile fast nicht mehr zu bekommen ist.

Serge (whiskyfun.com) hat folgende Bewertung für diese Abfüllung gegeben:

Lagavulin 1993/2009 ‚Manager’s Choice‘ (54.7%, OB, cask #4477, 612 bottles)

This one ex-Bodega sherry butt. Will it match the superb Caol Ila MC? Or the no less superb Lagavulins for Feis Ile?
Colour: pale gold.
Nose: wowie! I may well be the only drinker on this planet who loves good gentian spirit (hear, hear, Swiss people!) but all I can tell you is that there’s a lot of it in this Lagavulin. It’s got something very earthy, rooty and more medicinal than the usual Lagavulins, with distinct whiffs of a forest after a summer rain (cut the crap, S.!), moss, fresh mushrooms… Also traces of candy sugar but it’s otherwise quite dry. I’d say this is midway between the well-known annual 12yo CS and the Feis Ile versions – so far! With water: perfect.
Mouth: (neat): perfect again! Rather less sweet than other middle-aged Lagavulins and probably zestier and drier, with this earthiness again, something more medicinal than usual (gentian again?), a lot of lemon and… A full plate of oysters. The sherry is very, very discreet. With water: even more earth. How shall I put it? Let’s try this: this is high-precision peated malt whisky, kind of a Patek Philippe of the whisky world (as opposed to some very bling-bling Rolexes or APs).
Finish: alas.
Comments: quite curiously, I think it’s a Lagavulin that’s also a little ‘Laphroaig’. Now, let’s be serious, it hasn’t got the complexity of the old 12, but I’m sure it will after forty years in glass. Almost worth its very heavy price tag in my opinion.
SGP:448 – 93 points.

Source http://www.whiskyfun.com/archivejuly10-2.html#260710

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Alcohol strength: 54.7% Vol.
Content: 0.7 Liter

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