Lagavulin 16YO

Lagavulin is a distillery on the southern shore of the Inner Hebridean island of Islay. It is noted for producing a heavily peated single malt whisky with strong iodine overtones. The name is Scots Gaelic for "the hollow by the mill". Built in 1816, the distillery is one of three well-known producers along the coast between the villages of Port Ellen and Kildalton, the others being Ardbeg and Laphroaig. Lagavulin is a powerfully flavored malt and the house style prompts flavor descriptors like seaweed, brine, iodine, medicine, and tar. It is owned by Diageo's United Distillers subsidiary.

This is their "standard" bottling of 16 year old, which has won several international competitions and is regarded as one of the finest malts available by many critics.

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.