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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Still the King of the Islay single malts. I have tried most of them and always compare them to this gem of a dram.. Up there with the best in class...
I am fully aware that I will get some hate for this review but I find the Lagavulin 16 to be the most overrated whiskey in the market! It’s peaty notes taste artificial and mask over any flavour whiskey. I feel as though because this whiskey is popular everyone has jumped on the bandwagon an automatically believes that it is a good whiskey. Long live Balvenie!
Wonderful dram! Had to get another bottle!
An Islay gem with a delcious and well balanced combination of peat, smoke and savory notes on the nose and palete.
World class, big hitter, in every aspect,simply brilliant,,, the Kenny Dalglish of whiskeys,,, ? ?
