Prima & Ultima Lagavulin 28 year old 1993, 50.1%,

Drawn from the last 1993 casks, there are notes of chocolate-covered cherries, crystalized ginger, seasoned oak, woodsmoke, salt and pepper potato chips, and black tea on the nose. Plenty of European oak influence on the palate, with rich toffee, dried vine fruit, praline, robust smoke, pepper, and clove, though water coaxes out brighter cherry jam flavors. Spectacularly good, even if it plays many familiar old Lagavulin tunes. (642 bottles) £36,500/set