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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Mature peaty taste that lingers on the tongue and in the memory
Superb
I don't drink this anymore, since my wife died. I loved it and even though I couldn't afford it stuck with it for 20 years. When the $au rose I bought it by the case 6. For those of you here who don't get it, or sip away at it I only have feelings of sympathy. After a hard shift at work I would half fill a glass and slowly skul the lot. The place it took me to was far from care
An excellent whiskey with the distinctive smokey peat taste of Islay. To be drunk slowly to savour the full flavour.
Easily the most complex and almost certainly the best of the island malts and one I drink only occasionally so as not to spoil myself for the others.
