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.
iv just had a few drams of lagavulin white horse bottling and have too agree with others that it is better than todays bottles worth trying too find a bottle if you can
My favorite dram. If you take a small sip on the front of your tongue, you taste the sweetness. If allowed to the back of tongue, you get all the smoky richness.
The tasting note above was pretty much spot-on except for the finish. This is a wonderful scotch but not as smoky as I was hoping.
just amazing....peated smoke...loved it.
i didnt find any "smoke" .. its smooth like drinking water .. no alcohol bite AT ALL which is a bit awkward! .. nose ? iodine .. taste ? iodine and sherry all the way.
