This dram really reflects the place of its birth. Dramatic, robust and feisty just like the land and seascape of Lagavulin itself. Intense peat smoke backed up with rich cereal under-note that rounds the whole experience off.
In 1816 local farmer and distiller John Johnston founded the first legal distillery, within view of Dunyvaig Castle, once the stronghold of the Lords of the Isles.
A year later Archibald Campbell founded a second, which seems later to have traded under the name Ardmore. After Johnston's... death the two were united, when Glasgow-based Islay malt merchant Alexander Graham, to whom Johnston had been in debt, acquired Lagavulin for the princely sum of £1,103 9s 8d. Graham improved the buildings and his successors, James Logan Mackie & Co., carried on the business successfully. As a result, Lagavulin went from strength to strength.
Today Lagavulin has 7 operators and 1 Warehouse-man, a legend of a man who has served 40 years looking after all the casks that are maturing perfectly here by the sea. Islay is a Mecca for Whisky Connoisseurs so come and visit us and take a tour and taste our wonderful whisky while enjoying some of the most breath-taking views on the island.
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