Ledaig 1995 BR (BB&R)

Single Cask

700ml / 45.9%

Single Malt

$508

This Ledaig, a 27 year old, from 1995 from Berry Bros & Rudd, at 45.9%. A peated island malt, with a sooty smoke, sea salt and honey and a soft vanilla. Maritime, briny and bold. A Hebridean single malt from the Isle of Mull. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt. Coastal smoke over ripe fruit. Smoky, sweet and full.

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SKU TBM003 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

Bottled by Berry Bros & Rudd, this Ledaig, a 27 year old island malt from 1995, drawn from cask 186 and bottled at 45.9%. Just 224 bottles were filled. Ledaig, the peated malt of Mull's only distillery, keeps the old name the distillery bore when John Sinclair founded it in 1798. Its history is famously broken, with long silences; the buildings once held holiday lets and stored cheese.

Drawn off stills with their S shaped lyne arms, from peated malt, for a heavily peated island spirit. Ex-Bourbon casks held it, soft oak that lets the peat lead. Beyond twenty years the smoke turns gentle and sweet, soot and brine over deep fruit and wax. Sea air works into the island maturation, lending Ledaig its briny, coastal edge. In dry summers the distillery has paused when its hill loch ran low. The distillery sits at the head of the bay, beneath a steep wooded hill. Both malts feed the Scottish Leader and Black Bottle blends as well as single malt.

At a natural 45.9% it is bold and full. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and the bourbon cask adds vanilla and a gentle honey. The texture is oily, the smoke threaded with sea salt. A long, ashy finish ends on sea salt. This is Ledaig's smoky, maritime single malt.