Lagavulin 16 Years
The classic Lagavulin is kilned with a high smoke content in the malt. The stills are pear-shaped, so that all flavors can be passed on to the condensers during distillation. The single malt then matures in bourbon and sherry casks to completion.
The classic Lagavulin is kilned with a high smoke content in the malt. The stills are pear-shaped, so that all flavors can be passed on to the condensers during distillation. The single malt then matures in bourbon and sherry casks to completion.
Average tasting notes Tasting Notes |
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Nosing
Peat Smoke:
Maritime Notes:
Seaweed:
Sweet:
Sherry:
Fruit:
Iodine:
Bonfire Smoke:
Salt:
Ham:
Medicinal Smoke:
Oak:
Spices:
Herb:
Vanilla:
Dried Fruit:
Malt:
Leather:
Raisin:
Zitrus:
Orange:
Honey:
Alcohol:
Caramel:
Cinnamon:
Nuts:
Peach:
Herbs:
Anise:
Apple:
Cherry:
Dark Chocolate:
Grape:
Tobacco:
Blackberry:
Coffee:
Fig:
Grass:
Lemon:
Mint:
Oil:
Banana:
Cake:
Chocolate:
Clove:
Date:
Ginger:
Green Apple:
Heather:
Kiwi:
Lime:
Melon:
Pepper:
Pineapple:
Plum:
Walnut:
Tasting
Peat Smoke:
Sweet:
Maritime Notes:
Spices:
Salt:
Seaweed:
Fruit:
Sherry:
Oak:
Malt:
Herb:
Bonfire Smoke:
Pepper:
Nuts:
Vanilla:
Ham:
Iodine:
Dark Chocolate:
Dried Fruit:
Oil:
Medicinal Smoke:
Chili:
Leather:
Chocolate:
Coffee:
Tobacco:
Zitrus:
Barley:
Herbs:
Caramel:
Cinnamon:
Heather:
Honey:
Pineapple:
Berries:
Date:
Grapefruit:
Lemon:
Alcohol:
Almonds:
Anise:
Cake:
Clove:
Floral:
Ginger:
Grape:
Peach:
Plum:
Raisin:
Apple:
Banana:
Cheese:
Cherry:
Finish
Peat Smoke:
Sweet:
Oak:
Maritime Notes:
Spices:
Malt:
Salt:
Seaweed:
Sherry:
Herb:
Nuts:
Fruit:
Pepper:
Iodine:
Dark Chocolate:
Oil:
Ham:
Medicinal Smoke:
Chocolate:
Leather:
Bonfire Smoke:
Coffee:
Vanilla:
Chili:
Herbs:
Heather:
Zitrus:
Alcohol:
Almonds:
Caramel:
Cherry:
Dried Fruit:
Honey:
Pear:
Raisin:
Anise:
Apple:
Fig:
Grape:
Hazelnut:
Lemon:
Lemon Peel:
Mint:
Orange:
Peach:
Tobacco:
Tropical Fruit:
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Quality rating of this bottle
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All tasting notes
Intense peat smoke with iodine and seaweed and a rich, deep sweetness
Taste:
A rich, dried fruit sweetness with clouds of smoke and strong, barley malt flavours, warming and intense. At the back of the mouth is an explosion of peppery smoke
Finish:
Huge, long, warming and peppery with a distinch appetising sweetness
Comment:
RATING: 4.5/5.0 ≙ 91 pts




Immediately smoky. Not as intense as I was expecting, but welcome for it. Sweetness and vanilla. I smell walnuts in this though not many others seem to, and fennel or liquorice.
Taste:



Full and intense, sweet and smoky, oily mouth coating texture. some spiciness in the back of the mouth. There is a bit of fruitiness there, but you really have to go looking for it.
Finish:


Long and smoky, black pepper.
Comment:
I went into this not knowing what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised, the smoke is prevalent but not overpowering and the overall deep sweetness balances it out. The smoke is less medicinal and more like lapsang souchong tea (which I usually hate) but in this it definitely suits it. Good stuff.








Taste:






Finish:




Comment: a great peated scotch.

Taste: Sweet, peppery, not complex, notes of sherry, notes of wet wood and skin.
Finish:
Smoky, feeling like after smoking cigars.
Comment: I like this whisky but I don't get why it's so overrate and overprice since last three months. Taste is really good but not complex. As for 43% and long maturation alcohol is to present in mouth and to sharp. My personal biggest minus is for after/after taste which is this unpleasant feeling after smoking ciggarettes which is one of the reason I don't smoke and will never do.
To sum up: good whisky, I like it but aftertaste will not let me buy it again too soon. Diffinitely can be a very good dram for peat lovers. Comparing to Ardbeg it is totally different.