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Lagavulin 16 Year Old is truly a benchmark Islay whisky. It’s loved for its deep, earthy, and maritime character with rich notes of dried fruit, vanilla, and smokiness that comes from Islay peat but is more akin to Lapsang Souchong tea in profile.
Before Lagavulin 16, the distillery did have a 12-year-old single malt. But when Diageo launched the Classic Malt series in the 1980s, Lagavulin 16 Year Old was introduced and became the distillery's flagship bottling. It received a boost in popularity after featuring in Parks and Recreation as a favourite drink of Nick Offerman’s character Ron Swanson. Offerman has since collaborated with the distillery on several occasions.
If you're looking for a food pairing for this beauty, try intensely flavoured salty blue cheeses, which complement the intense, peat-rich, sweet and salty character of this Lagavulin wonderfully.
More like Lapsang Souchong tea than Lapsang Souchong! One of the smokiest noses from Islay. It's big, very, very concentrated, and redolent of iodine, sweet spices, good, mature Sherry and creamy vanilla. Stunning.
Very thick and rich. A massive mouthful of malt and Sherry with good fruity sweetness, but also a wonderful sweetness. Big, powerful peat and oak.
Long, spicy finish, figs, dates, peat smoke, vanilla.
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Husband’s favourite whisky getting put away for Santa ??
Excellent
I love this whisky - beautifully rounded whisky with barbecue smoke, cured ham, peat and alot of sweetness bursting through
I have a pretty massive collection of bottles and most of them are sealed for the future or for investment purposes. This one I opened ages ago when I 1st really got into whiskey but I really barely get a chance to drink... It has really been fine sitting in the cupboard it seems like the correct is totally intact and just smelling this from the bottle and put it in the glass just reminds me of why I got interested in whiskey in the 1st place. This is stunning. Sometimes you see all these expensive bottles and then you realize some people don't even care about this world and wouldn't even understand the expense and the high end expensiveness that whiskey can get into but this is just an exceptional product. It's beautiful and tastes beautiful and smells amazing No it's wise I suppose this has to be considered the smoke here scotches but it's not like I get a ton of smoke off the nose... It's like a fine rich spicy wine... I need to read other people's tasting notes to understand what I'm smelling here and what I'm tasting
Straight out the dram bottle, I really appreciate the darker gold hue - it doesn't affect flavour for me, but a nice touch. On the nose, I got hints of peat and orange zest. In the initial tasting, I could tell this is a complex one, arguably the most complex out of the drams or Tamadhu, Glenkinchie, Glen Scotia, Ledaig and the Dalmore I'd tasted. A fruity lemony sourness, but not as sharp/refreshing as the Ledaig 10 which I felt was a bit frustrating as I wanted that hit, but it rounded off into the "sourness" you get from honey, of which, the sweetness transpired as it sat on my tongue a bit longer, which was soon greeted by a smokey body and savoury finish. Notes of aged varnished wood that my grandpa used to have in his living room. In exploring the aftertaste, I could feel the creaminess of coconut coming through and a whisper of aniseed, enveloped by a pipe tobacco cloud.. which I loved. After watering down, I took a whiff, and it transported me to memories of when I'd stayed in a Yorkshire Inn, in Buckden, awaking at 4 in the morning to bright sunshine, and that formidable countryside smell filled with grass, earth, fresh air and a distant steam train/smoking chimney/remnants of last night's bonfire. In the tasting, the peat and earth notes really came through, and the sweet unburned tobacco remained. A serious drink, with the following summary to wrap up my thoughts; This Lagavulin 16 year old took me on a steam train journey to the dram of Ledaig I'd tasted. Or in prosaic form; Ledaig with smoke 8.5/10 or closest here would be 4.5/5. A 4/5 would mean an 8/10 which it just isn't. It's marginally better, and my favourite one so far.