Ledaig 10 Years Old

This official Ledaig single malt, a 10 year old and bottled at 46.3%. Ledaig is the heavily peated single malt of Tobermory distillery, the only distillery on the Isle of Mull, founded in 1798. The distillery was founded in 1798 by John Sinclair, a local kelp merchant, as the Ledaig distillery.

The spirit was run through the distillery's boil ball stills from peated barley, to build the medicinal, briny Ledaig character. It was matured in ex-Bourbon oak, a vanilla sweetness beneath the smoke. At this age the smoke is fierce and ashy, the brine and medicinal note sharp. Peat smoke and active oak settle together over the years, the smoke softening as the fruit deepens. Tobermory has distilled in the island's harbour town since 1798. The town of Tobermory was laid out by the British Fisheries Society a decade before the distillery came. The distillery's history is broken by long silences; its buildings once stored a local cheddar.

At 46.3% it is smooth and full. Soot, sea salt and a sweet fruit, and the ex-Bourbon lends vanilla and a soft honey. Beneath the smoke run brine, tar and a sweet fruit. It closes long, smoky and briny. This is the peated island malt of Mull.