Ledaig 2011 G&P (Gillespie & Partners)

700ml / 59.5%

Single Malt

$142

This Ledaig, a 10 year old, from 2011 from Gillespie & Partners, at 59.5%. A peated island malt, with a sooty smoke, sea salt and dried fruit and walnut. Maritime, briny and bold. From the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides. Iodine, smoke and ripe fruit. A bold Hebridean single malt. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt.

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SKU TBM111 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

Bottled by Gillespie & Partners, this Ledaig, a 10 year old from 2011, drawn from cask 700191 and bottled at 59.5%. The outturn was 120 bottles. Ledaig is the peated malt made at Tobermory on Mull, a distillery founded as Ledaig 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. A sherry cask wrapped the smoke in dried fruit and a nutty depth. At this age the smoke is fierce and ashy, the brine and medicinal note sharp. Sea air works into the island maturation, lending Ledaig its briny, coastal edge. 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.

Bottled at a cask strength 59.5%, it is intense. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and sherried dried fruit and a nutty edge come through. 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.

Additional information

Weight

1.6 kg