Ledaig 1996 (Connoisseurs Choice)

Connoisseurs Choice – Cask Strength

700ml / 53.4%

Single Malt

$471

This Ledaig, a 28 year old, from 1996 from Gordon & MacPhail, at 53.4%. A peated island malt, with a sooty smoke, sea salt and vanilla and a light oak. A bold Hebridean single malt. A Hebridean single malt from the Isle of Mull. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt. Coastal smoke over ripe fruit.

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SKU TBM123 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Ledaig

Description

This Ledaig was released by Gordon & MacPhail, aged 28 year old from 1996, drawn from cask 88 and bottled at 53.4%. 223 bottles in all. Ledaig is the heavily peated single malt of Tobermory distillery, the only distillery on the Isle of Mull, founded in 1798. The stills carry boil bulbs and an S shaped kink in the lyne arms, which raises reflux.

Drawn off stills with their S shaped lyne arms, from peated malt, for a heavily peated island spirit. Maturation came in ex-Bourbon wood, vanilla beneath the soot. Very old Ledaig turns profound, the smoke soft and the fruit rich. Sea air works into the island maturation, lending Ledaig its briny, coastal edge. The stills carry boil bulbs and a kink in the lyne arms, which lifts the reflux. Water is drawn from a private hill loch, the Gearr Abhainn, above the town. Its painted home town gives the unpeated malt its name.

At its natural 53.4% it is concentrated. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and ex-Bourbon oak gives vanilla and a light sweetness. 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.

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Weight

1.6 kg