Ledaig 2009 (Old Particular) (56.8%)

Old Particular – The Dutch Dram Masters

700ml / 56.8%

Single Malt

$234

This Ledaig, a 16 year old, from 2009 chosen by Douglas Laing, at 56.8%. A peated island malt, with a sooty smoke, sea salt and raisin and toasted nuts. Smoke, fruit and brine. One of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, on Mull. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt. Coastal smoke over ripe fruit. Smoky, sweet and full.

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SKU TBM077 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

Single malt Ledaig, selected and bottled by Douglas Laing, aged 16 year old from 2009, drawn from cask DL19961 and bottled at 56.8%. Just 302 bottles were filled. Ledaig is the heavily peated single malt of Tobermory distillery, the only distillery on the Isle of Mull, founded in 1798. The distillery makes two malts: the unpeated Tobermory and the peated Ledaig.

It was drawn off stills with their S shaped lyne arms, from peated malt, for a heavily peated island spirit. A sherry cask wrapped the smoke in dried fruit and a nutty depth. By this age the peat rounds into a sweeter, coastal smoke. Long maturation turns fierce young smoke into a rounded, coastal peat. Mull's maritime climate works into the maturing casks over the years. It is one of the oldest commercial distilleries in Scotland still working. Tobermory has distilled in the island's harbour town since 1798.

At a natural 56.8% it is bold and full. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and the Oloroso gives dried fruit and a toasted nuttiness. The texture is oily, the smoke threaded with sea salt. The finish is deep, tarry and sweet. This is Ledaig's smoky, maritime single malt.