Lagavulin distillery

The distillery is located between Ardbeg and Laphroaig, on the southern coast of Islay, the fifth largest Scottish island. Founded in 1816, a year after Laphroaig, it has been in fierce competition with its nearest neighbor since then.

Peter Mackie, creator of the White Horse blend, owned the distillery at the end of the 1800s and was also the sales agent for Laphroaig. When he lost the agency in 1907, he decided to build a new distillery at Lagavulin that would produce whisky identical to Laphroaig, the legendary Malt Mill. Unfortunately, his plan failed, and the whisky was completely different from Laphroaig, and Malt Mill closed, appearing only in tales of rare whisky.

The whisky produced at Lagavulin has a range of personalities. In its youth, the distillery's whisky is exuberant and raw, with a huge marine smokiness; as it ages, it quickly gains weight and elegance, with the official 16-year release well known as one of the most beautiful dreams of Islay.