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.
blows like the oklahoma winds.
Lagavulin 16 year old is like sipping angels water! An experience to savour like no other scotch!
My friend and I both have a bottle of the Lag16, His is a 2012 batch (L2) and mine is a 2013 (L3).. the difference is BIG ! the 2013 is aggressive on the tong, less smoothness, less peat, LESSSSS sweetness/sherry compared to the 2012.. I had a 2012 last year too. ps note the batch date by the number following the letre "L" on the lower portion of the bottle Still very good, but not the "Magical" drink it was just a year ago!
Love the smokey after taste, you have to be a real scotch drinker to appreciate this scotch. Love it.
A great dram. Well worth the price. Always keep a bottle of this in.
