New Release: Lagavulin 1991-2015 Officially for the 2015 Islay Festival Triple Matured

A luxurious Lagavulin, as expected. Lagavulin LAGAVULIN 1991-2015 OB FEIS ILE 2015 TRIPLE MATURED 59.9% One of 3500 bottles The aroma features sweet plums and apricot jam, a rustic yet refined maltiness with depth, caramelized nuts, tea, brine, and a matured, strong peat with seaweed notes. The taste begins smoothly, expanding into rich apricot jam sweetness and a robust body with good maltiness, balanced woody notes, concentrated tea bitterness, seafood stock umami, thick-bodied peat with iodine undertones, tannic leather, rich, oily, and a long-lasting sweet umami finish. 【Very Good】 This Lagavulin 1991 was bottled for the 2015 Islay Festival. Despite its approximately 24 years of maturation in an official Lagavulin bottling, it was sold for £128, which surprised me. Naturally, such a quantity seems to have sold out quickly. It underwent two maturation phases: first briefly in PX Sherry casks, then long-term aging in Old Oak Puncheon casks like the Karila. While retaining Lagavulin's signature sweet, concentrated apricot jam and robust peat character, the extended maturation and PX Sherry influence gave it a refined complexity with heightened sweetness. The lack of overt secondary maturation notes and the natural, cohesive aroma compared to Karila suggests that the long-term Old Oak Puncheon aging was pivotal. It maintains a solid base flavor while achieving a higher-level, grounded, and complete taste profile.