Single Malt Diageo Special Release - Fireside Tales 12YO Bottled
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
As a high-proof, cask-strength single malt Scotch whisky, this bottling is ready to be enjoyed immediately upon release and will remain in peak condition indefinitely when stored properly.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
blue cheese, smoked oysters, slow-roasted barbecue beef brisket
✨ Technical Specifications
Lagavulin's 12 Year Old Cask Strength is a legendary cornerstone of Diageo's annual Special Releases, highly anticipated by whisky connoisseurs worldwide. Unlike the classic, mellowed 16 Year Old, the 12 Year Old is bottled at natural cask strength, offering a raw, elemental, and beautifully untamed expression of Islay. The 2024 release, subtitled 'Fireside Tales,' continues this tradition of celebrating the distillery's signature peat smoke, maritime brine, and unexpected sweet undertones. Distilled in Lagavulin's slow, pear-shaped stills on the edge of Lagavulin Bay, the spirit absorbs the rugged, wind-swept character of the Islay coast. Historically, the distillery's site has been a hotbed of distilling activity since at least the 18th century, once home to illicit stills before John Johnston legally established it in 1816. This expression captures that rebellious, fiery spirit, matured in hand-selected oak casks to balance the intense, medicinal peat smoke with notes of charred wood, sea salt, and a surprising, delicate orchard fruit sweetness.
🍾 About the Producer
Officially established in 1816 by John Johnston, Lagavulin is situated on the windswept southern coast of the Isle of Islay, Scotland, overlooking the dramatic ruins of Dunyvaig Castle. Today owned by Diageo, the historic distillery is celebrated for its uncompromising dedication to traditional methods, utilising heavily peated malt and remarkably slow distillation in distinctive pear-shaped pot stills. This meticulous process yields an intensely rich, oily, and complex spirit that embodies the quintessential maritime character of southern Islay. Renowned for balancing ferocious peat smoke, brine, and medicinal notes with deep dried-fruit sweetness, Lagavulin achieves its definitive expression in its legendary 16 Year Old single malt.