Heavy with peat and smoke, Lagavulin 16 Year Old is a well-liked expression from the distillery that sits in Southern Islay.

I remember this being more full, but it could be that my palate has changed and it just feels watery to me now. Information and statements about products are not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Further, we reserve the right to modify, change, discontinue the Service, add or remove features, update the Service, change its appearance, temporarily and permanently, at any time, in whole or any part thereof. It's utterly unique as well in that it flirts with both oiliness and dryness and blends them so flawlessly.

The peat is accompanied by toffee, butterscotch, caramel, some light pickled seaweed with sesame seeds on top, nori and some more coastal aromas. The Service has been prepared by us solely for information purposes to Members and the Service is based on information we consider reliable and we obtain the contents of the Service from a number of different third party sources (including Contributions), but we do not endorse, support, represent, warrant or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the Services and any information therein. To terminate your account, login to your account, go to the “settings page”, and follow the termination instructions]. Well lo' and behold a bottle appeared for me at Christmas and I opened the box to finally stare at that iconic bottle in the flesh for the first time. V. (“Whiskybase”, “we” or “us”, company details below) offers a whisky enthusiasts online platform that provides its members access to the most comprehensive, transparent and trusted resource of whisky bottles and allows and stimulates its members to contribute information about whisky bottles to the platform (“Service”).

It is this double personality that makes it possible to better understand the exceptional "strength cask" versions offered by the distillery. To be eligible for a full refund you must contact us to inform us of any issue within 24 hours of receipt. In between those are light aromas of mandarin oranges, burnt lint, ashes, more citrus peels and digestive biscuits. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services. 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.Sometimes you see all these expensive bottles and then you realize some people don't even care about this world and wouldn't even understand the expense and the high end expensiveness that whiskey can get into but this is just an exceptional product. The intense character comes from their own richly peaty water supply; the heavily peated barley; the unusually long fermentation - up to 75 hours; and the slowest distillation of any Islay malt. With each sip, one embarks on a sensory journey, transported to the windswept shores of Islay, where the heart and soul of this remarkable single malt Scotch whisky were born.