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.
Although a person of modest means, your Lagavulin 16 is the only scotch that I will drink. No more Chevis Regal for me! I am totally ruined for any other scotch. I love the smoky peat taste.
...and the other way around. Try this with anything on the mellow side of Alice in Chains. Jesus christ....
Suckling on the maternal teat....Magic!
Drinking some now. You got it DOWN, Lagavulin makers. I know it's bad for me to have just one more, but just one more. So expensive, but perfection is worth it. I can't afford more than a bottle every once in a while, but maybe that's a good thing. My liver will be the better for it. An explosion of WOW in my mouth with every sip. Thank you.
I am not very very impressed with this scotch. I like smoke in my whiskey and bought a bottle of Lagavulin 16YO with promise of similarities with Lafraugh. However the Lagavulin is not in any way matched with the Lafraugh. It doesn't taste bad, but there's no strenght to it either.
