Ledaig 2005 ElD (Elixir)

The Single Malts of Scotland

700ml / 54.2%

Single Malt

$259

Single malt Ledaig, a 17 year old, from 2005 from Elixir Distillers, at 54.2%. Bold and coastal, showing peat, tar and vanilla and a soft honey. Coastal smoke, finely aged. A Hebridean single malt from the Isle of Mull. Iodine, smoke and ripe fruit. A bold Hebridean single malt. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt.

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SKU TBM099 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

From Elixir Distillers comes this Ledaig matured to 17 year old from 2005, drawn from cask 78 and bottled at 54.2%. The outturn was 253 bottles. Ledaig is the smoky side of Tobermory distillery on the Isle of Mull, one of Scotland's oldest distilleries. The single malts are bottled without chill filtration at 46.3 percent or higher.

Distilled from malt peated to around thirty seven parts per million, building the bold, smoky Ledaig style. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanilla under the maritime smoke. Mid age brings a deeper, sweeter smoke and a maritime lift. The heavily peated spirit holds its smoke well across long maturation. The distillery's history is broken by long silences; its buildings once stored a local cheddar. Burn Stewart revived production in 1993, and Distell bought the distillery in 2013. The stills carry boil bulbs and a kink in the lyne arms, which lifts the reflux.

Undiluted at 54.2%, it is powerful. Wood smoke, BBQ char and a coastal salt, and the ex-Bourbon lends vanilla and a soft honey. It is bold and coastal, the peat and soot to the fore. It finishes smoky, salty and warming. This is a heavily peated malt from Mull's only distillery.