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.
Having found my taste for Scottish single malts, I must say even though they say Irish whiskey may be the oldest, this doesn't mean its the best. This dram will leave your taste buds with a smokey mellow peat taste to savour. This is a dram that should be drank slowly with some friends.
I drink old shot whiskey, recommended in my opinion, I like!
This was my first whisky love, and no matter what my other, current favorites may be, I'll always stay with Lagavulin
I have always drink this one as my favourite and I should start thinking about moving on to another brand because the quality of this one particularly it decreasing every year. I rate it 91/100 (The older version);
I discovered Lagavulin in the 90's and it has been my favorite ever. Also like Caol Ila, Laphroaig and Bowmore. Great to drink with a nice cuban cigar and some good friends
