Lagavulin 16y/o 1999 Distillers Edition 43% 30ml

Lagavulin Distillers Edition bottled in 2015, matured in bourbon casks and finished in Pedro Ximenez Sherry casks. The Distillers Editions from Lagavulin have been getting increasingly less tasty - the Black Label ones from early 2000's soon after the distillery was bought by Diageo are really great. This one which was bottled in 2015 is savoury on the palate and very well-rounded and balanced with some sweet peat and cherry and chocolate on the finish it tastes under powered at 43% - quite different to the latest DE bottled in 2023 which was quite harsh and much younger tasting than what you would expect from a 16 years old whisky bottled at 43%.