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.
I tried this whiskey many years ago and it's my best by far, sat with a lovely glass of Lagavulin next to a raging log fire to round a perfect evening off
The Cognac of whiskeys! A real gem, tastes of bonfire, absolutely outstanding if you're a fan of the Islay whiskeys. Not as smokey as the Ardbeg in my opinion, slightly sweeter as well.
Out of respect for Ron I went ahead and bought some and unfortunately I thought it was awful, not far from the paint thinner comment of another person on this thread. Ron and I may agree on libertarianism but definitely not on scotch.
Not a go out and buy,actually it's does nothing for me
Well it has smoke yeah.. But Laphroaig tastes better :/
