Lagavulin’s 200th Anniversary

Signaling the significance of the event, Diageo sent a senior whisky team to the intimate dinner in London held to celebrate the 200 ^th Anniversary of the legal founding of Lagavulin distillery.  Guests were greeted by David Gates, global head – premium core spirits along with Dr. Nick Morgan, head of whisky outreach, distillery manager Georgie Crawford, and colleagues from the Diageo archives and brand teams.

Dr. Nick Morgan

With 200 years of history to acknowledge, Morgan referenced in his remarks a number of distinguished commentators on Lagavulin, reminding us that the world’s first whisky writer Alfred Barnard found Lagavulin,...