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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Nice whisky, quite peaty but is a bit strong on the char. It has some interesting medicinal notes, kind of like a strong Lapsang Suchong or bamboo charcoal Hae cha. For me personally I would use this to mix with some soda or tonic for a smokey drink. Would be great in smokey, medicinal cocktails and mixers. Not sure how often I would drink neat, even though I like peat, the char is a little too much, but still nice. 4stars because although it is a very nice medicinal tasting whisky the char notes are a bit strong for me to sip on a regular......If the char was dialed back just slightly, allowing the rest of the whisky to come to the forefront then this would be a 5 star.
It tastes of smoke, we all know it. Very hard to drink ... you might enjoy it if you are a smoker and or firefighter.
It. Is. Awesome . Very peaty but fantastic taste as well as excellent feeling after two glasses :)
Wonderful sweet smokey lingering after taste
Just nice not to dry not to sweet with a nice warm finish very pleasant.
