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Experience

The whisky elder is certainly a great looking bottle and we can only hope that Diageo doesn’t go and redesign it like their Talisker branding… I know I need to move on from that.

With the green glass bottle and off-white label it leans into the heritage without becoming cliche. This is helped by the fact the design itself hasn’t really changed at all over the years.

43% is pretty good when you consider it is a mass produced bottle and to the shock of no one there is added colour helping to retain the gold liquid consistency.

Huge props to both Nick Offerman and Iain McArthur for being champions for Lagavulin bringing in their respective audiences.