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 am fairly new to whisky. Started with a view mini's. At first, the peated whisky's made me kind of sick, but I grew on it. Now I think the smoky ones are the best. The smokier, the better. I absolutely adore it. I didn't expect that to happen. Ardbeg, Connemara, Caol Ila, very very nice drams. But this one, the Lagavulin, is the best of them all for now. I even closed my eyes when I tasted this whisky. It's delicious. Wow.
I was given a bottle for Christmas and it has such a strong iodine that it is non-drinkable. With compost since I do not drink iodine I can see no reason why to try to drink a good scotch that has such a bad aftertaste. I was told that heavy cigar smokers love this product. not being a cigar smoker I wonder if all of their taste buds are burned off.
Just grand. Love my kids for their good taste.
My first taste of this nectar of the gods made me feel like the barrel has washed ashore and stayed in a cave for a long time. Beautiful peat smoke and the essence of the sea with no salt, my favorite.
My son presented this to me for Christmas and what a celebration! After dinner many of us at the table put the finishing touches on a great meal with this fantastic scotch. It's all about the smokey bass, thanks Remy!!!
