Lagavulin Feis Ile 2022.

A mild nose with light prickle; the first creamy top note suggests bread and butter pudding, before maritime notes of crystalline salt and tide-line seaweed emerge alongside hints of medicinal salve. Quite meaty, with water releasing increasing scented wood smoke.

At natural strength, the texture is thick, mouth-filling and lightly oily, with a very sweet initial taste that is also very spicy; powerful oak spice seems to control the smoke until water releases it.