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.
My girl surprised me with the best whiskey I've ever had. Word to Ron Swanson. Even smelling it can make you intoxicated!
Disappointing, rather flat and one dimensional, with a somewhat unpleasant aftertaste. Makes me pine for my Laphroig.
Got this for my birthday. It is a spectacular Scotch!
Got given my first ever bottle today for christmas. I think if I had tried this 2 years ago when I first started exploring whisky I would not have liked it but now all I can say is WOW this is the one I have been looking for. Absolutely magnificent.
Omg, this whiskey bar far is the best, its the first whiskey i can literally drink like a glass f wine, no water, no ice and no carbonated water... It is so rich and smooth, doesnt burn when you swallow... The flavors are amazing! Oak, leather and smokey flavors... I cant describe the experience, all i can say is that now im a lagavulin for life....
