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 enjoy most of the Island Malts, but Lagavulin although slightly more expensive is a nice one to bring to the table, I like the bottle, label, dark colour and of course the taste, served only with ice. One to share with people who have an appreciative pallette.
The smell is a bit overpowering, but absolutely delicious.
this stuff is the milk of the gods. it's just a masterpeace.
This is a great wiskey--- Amrut fusion an India whiskey is its equal--- although not a Scotch it has all the charteristics of one and half of the barley is imported from Scotland ----trust me their both great
Is this guy kidding? The only "mix" I would have with this whiskey or any other in it's class is a little bit of high quality water. Experienced drinker, my ass. I've only been getting into single malts for a few years now and even I know better than that. Mix with coke? That's insane. No wonder he doesn't like it.
