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.
The best Islay whisky there is ..
its frigging good , you will love it ONLY if you know what whiskey is .. smoke , peat , sherry , i swear to you guys i had a glass of that monster and walked 15 minutes from my hotel to the mall and still the finish is lingering!! look .. if you are one of these guys "whiskey coke , whiskey soda .." better to avoid it .. because lagavulin will kick your arse ! this .. is real men drink .. not suitable for youngsters .. it's dangerous:)
An Islay lover, I never cared for this one. Annoyed that everyone else adores it, I kept trying. Rotten mushrooms I kept tasting. Everything else was "okay", but couldn't get over the rotten mushrooms. Three bottles over two years, and finally I get it. For me the secret: do 50/50 water. Or more. I'm generally not a water-adder (did I just say that?), even to e.g. A'bunadh, but some water really brings this one out for me. Kills that concentrated rotten mushroom essence, and opens up whole new layers of complexity. The other Islays (Corryvreckan notwithstanding) don't take water nearly as well, and in retrospect that says something. There's much more to this than smoke.
É o melhot single malt . Já tenho o costume de toma- lo no momento estou degustando esrs maravilha sempre que viajo compro 2 garrafas , esta terminando e preciso comprar mais . Minha nota é 100.
Avid Gin drinker who was convinced to get a new perspective on Scotch. Lagavulin 16 is a fantastic place to start. Head and shoulders above the others I've tried thus far. Had as much fun smelling this as I did drinking it.
