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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Men, I must start to question myself and stop drinking this top quality drug like sirup... had the first bottle couple years ago, bought a new one the year after, and now it is like I buy three of these every year... The laga is unique. This camp fire smoky peat is outragesly good. What the hell is wrong with you Lagavulin ? Stop doing this whisky or my wife will kill you all !!
Fantastic. I was introduced to it in 2002 on a visit to England and Scotland. I have always loved Scotch. This is the best. Incrediblly complex and rich. Love it neat.
Quite simply the best Whisky bar none. You can go to Ardbeg for pure smoke, but this winds that back a little which allows a multitude of flavours. Smell the glass the next morning and your instantly in some medieval pub or church, old wood smell. Outstanding.
On opening it's not far off TCP intriguing but oh my. Quarter down the bottle I let it breath for a couple a months it's better. I think I like it bit kipperish
Its good, its a whisky that most whisky collections will have in them.....but its not as good as it used to be. Even the color is different ....just dont add e150 to the bloody stuff it not hard!
