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.
This amazing scotch whiskey is really a gods gift and if you haven't tried it, you haven't lived. Literally Amazing
Always a treat.
This used to be something spectacular. A unique earthly delight. Now it's more run of the mill. What the hell happened? I miss the bombast and experience of the old Lagavulin. This literally tastes watered down. I don't know if that violates a law in the UK for the production of spirits but whatever this is violates my soul and leaves me wanting. I hate to say it, but I will not buy this again.
Tastes watered down. Is this the same thing as before? Where is the flavor. Wasted my money on this... Not a bad scotch as it is but hardly a 1st place winner.
Best Scotch I've tried to date mmmmm so sweet and smooth (:
