Lagavulin 16 Year Old

This is unbelievable whisky and i am compelled to share this.

Lagavulin best feeling you can have with your clothes on.

Beautiful flavor, smoky, musky, soft velvet, really warm hug, the best scotch i had taste so far.

Lagavulin is simply the best single malt in the world, it has everything that whisky making can offer poured into every bottle.When you get that atlantic ocean taste and smell when the top comes of the first time your are hooked for life.

The taste of Scotland

if i could only ever buy one bottle of single malt again lagavulin would be it. nothing i have sampled before or since can compare to it! believe the hype.

Delicious! I used to drink Lagavulin back in the 90s when it was properly priced. I loved it then, but I stopped buying when the price went up to staggering levels. Now it is back on my cabinet shelf thanks to the aggressive pricing of late and it is as great tasting as ever!!! Oh how I missed thee, delicious and expertly peated, light delicate smoke, sexy velvet pallet, and warming mouthwatering finish. Maybe my favorite Islay malt.

Excellent stuff. Smoky but not too peaty, undertones of charcoal, brine and a lovely sweetness. Dry finish. I am converted.

Wow, I think I may have found a new best friend!

This is the true 'indoors' Islay whisky - the raw elements have been cultivated and brought into the manor house. The 16 year old has depth, is very aromatic, subtle very sherried and herbed. It can't compete with Ardbeg and Laphroaig on peat and smoke but wins through with sheer refinement.

This is simply the stuff of champions.

I found a bottle of Lagavulin 16 YO in the 80s and my Scotch whisky world has not been the same since. This is the one that opened my eyes to the wonderful variety and depth of Scotch single malts. In the mid to late ninties quality was lost. I am happy to report the Lagavulin 16 yo I remember and love is back. This sweet, peaty, malty, briney single malt is magnificently balanced -it may well be the Islay with the best overall balance. I love this stuff.

Introduced to me by my Scottish father in law over a very long evening last Christmas, this really is something to savour. Tremendous and surprisingly good value considering the range of malts we put it up against.

Tip:This improves in the bottle after opening. Savour it over a few months... it gets sweeter

i hated peaty whiskies and therefore had written off Islay whiskies in general.....BUT i was a fool! this tastes too good to share - the taste couldnt be more different from the nose.

Quite easy drinking this one. Smokey spicy nose, some bite and very reminiscent of a speyside in its core taste. Not a long finish but gives a pleasant hint of smoke. A dry edge lingers on palate. This is very different to say a Laphroaig 10 which is sweeter more rounded and fills the airways with smoke. Both are very good!

I've been fortunate enough to try whiskies from all the current Islay distilleries, even Kilchoman and Port Ellen, but there is just something about Lagavulin 16 that makes it a real classic. PE, Ardbeg, Laphroaig and co. are all fantastic, but the Lagavulin 16 is my choice for introducing others to the Islay whiskies. Brilliantly clean notes of smoke, spice and fruit.

I'd keep a bottle of this to drink, and one for if the world end, and store it right next to the other emergency bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail.

This got me into Whisky.

Holy guacamole! This is a very serious dram; an awesome display of whisky power! Seasalt, dried fruits, loads of oak, spice, smoke and of course: peat, peat, peat! It seems to linger forever... Its smell still emanated from my glass long after it was empty and even now (morning after) I still taste its woodiness/smokiness on my palate. Wife kids out of the house, my recliner, my bottle of Lagavulin and a stack of Cheech