Ledaig 11 Years Old A Dream of Scotland (Brühler Whiskyhaus)

This Ledaig was released by Brühler Whiskyhaus matured to 11 year old and bottled at 58.1%. Only 308 bottles were released. Ledaig is the peated malt made at Tobermory on Mull, a distillery founded as Ledaig in 1798. The distillery was founded in 1798 by John Sinclair, a local kelp merchant, as the Ledaig distillery.

The spirit was drawn off stills with their S shaped lyne arms, from peated malt, for a heavily peated island spirit. A wine cask laid red fruit over the peat smoke. Younger here, the peat runs bold over a sweet, fruity core. Sea air works into the island maturation, lending Ledaig its briny, coastal edge. Its painted home town gives the unpeated malt its name. A rare, more heavily peated make has appeared under the name Iona, after a neighbouring isle. 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.

At a full 58.1% it is intense and layered. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and the Port cask adds plum and red berry. The texture is oily, the smoke threaded with sea salt. A long, peaty finish smoulders to the end. This is Ledaig's smoky, maritime single malt.