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.
Disgusting
Lagavulin is the first single malt I ever tasted and I guess I just took a liking to its complex palate and spicy finish. I like all the single malts, each one seems like it has something special to offer. This one just holds the top spot for me.
If-ing you like the taste of creosote, with hints of kelp and a little touch of iodine, spent pipe tobacco, fishboxes and kippers, the this is the drink for you! Have you ever walked though a house the day after it burned to the ground. That is what the smokey smell reminds me of, one big toxic ash tray. It was slightly better after it was allowed to breathe for a while, or was that after the ice was allowed to melt? If this is your drink, bottoms up. You can have it.
while strong peat a balaced scotch whiskey try a couple of ice cubes and let the evening grow richer
I was very hyped about this, i tasted a lot of whiskies, but this is the first one that i so disliked that i didnt even finish my glass. It tasted like shoe polish/acetone. I just stick to my glenfiddich/glenmorangie/bourbons
