Ledaig 2009 BR (BB&R) (53.5%)

Single Cask

700ml / 53.5%

Single Malt

$214

A Ledaig single malt, a 14 year old, from 2009 bottled by Berry Bros & Rudd, at 53.5%. Smoky and maritime, showing peat smoke, brine and dried fruit and walnut. Coastal smoke, finely aged. A single malt from the only distillery on Mull. A heavily peated island whisky. The smoky side of Tobermory. Sea salt and soft smoke.

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SKU TBM008 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

From Berry Bros & Rudd comes this Ledaig, a 14 year old island malt from 2009, drawn from cask 700327 and bottled at 53.5%. A release of 240 bottles. Ledaig, the peated malt of Mull's only distillery, keeps the old name the distillery bore when John Sinclair founded it in 1798. Ledaig, the old name kept for the peated malt, means safe haven in Gaelic.

It was run through the distillery's boil ball stills from peated barley, to build the medicinal, briny Ledaig character. A sherry butt held it, sherry and smoke twining together. Around the mid teens the smoke knits with dried fruit and a sea salt. The phenols soften with age into a gentle, sweet wood smoke. Both malts feed the Scottish Leader and Black Bottle blends as well as single malt. The distillery was refurbished and its stills renewed between 2017 and 2019. Mull's maritime climate works into the maturing casks over the years.

Undiluted at 53.5%, it is powerful. Soot, sea salt and a sweet fruit, and sherried dried fruit and a nutty edge come through. Beneath the smoke run brine, tar and a sweet fruit. It finishes smoky, salty and warming. This is the peated island malt of Mull.

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Weight

1.6 kg