Ash, sea salt, and lime on the nose. Lots more salt and seaweed on the palate, along with maybe a hint of puffed rice cereal. The long finish is a highlight, showing citrus and smoke. I really like the flavor profile: more on the sea-and-smoke side rather than the bandaid-and-iodine side. But that’s just a personal preference, not a qualitative judgment. Overall, it’s a little more rounded than the Laphroaig 10, but by no means deeper, longer, more complex, or more intense. To me, then, it’s not worth paying twice as much for the 16 as for the 10. Still, it’s a nice change of pace.