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.
Lagavulin 16 is the Scotch drinkers think of when it comes y Islay Scotch. Great peaty smokey flavor. One of my standard Scotches.
The best value whiskey I've ever had!!!
Very nice. I think watery feeling some reviewers comment on is actually the dryness of the dram. It doesn't have the iodine hit of the 12yo cask strength but wait awhile and you'll get a subtle hint. Very pleasing dram.
Wonderful taste. Thick and rich taste is unmistakable
A bit to intense smokey for my palate. Review/flavor profile is very accurate. I didn't get as much peat as intense smoke.
