Lagavulin 16 Year Old
This is Peat Perfection!
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This is the closest Ive tried to a perfect peaty malt. Lagavulin would definitely get into the category of bonfire, leather, iodine, but also a raisin and a toasted pistachio marrying in your palate. It's one of the peat monsters; I've gone through Talisker, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, and all of them have their own distinctive element. But Lagavulin stands out with the perfect combination of ABV, strong peat, rich, almost weird sweetness and smooth yet complex finish.
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I tasted a glass a few days ago. Yes, it's still quite nice. This said, it used to be better and much less expensive. Ah, those were the good ole days; when drinkers in the US were not turned on to scotch whisky and instead were content with their vodka and gin. I miss being able to walk into my neighborhood liquor store and buy a bottle of Pappy's right off the shelf. Of course, back then good scotch whisky was hard to come by in Oregon. The liquor control commission didn't try to get very many interesting bottles into the state since demand was low. Ah, but a trip to Scotland back in the 1990's was like visiting Valhalla when it came to the wonderful bottles one could stumble across there, even in the lowlands.