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A smoky Ledaig single malt, a 16 year old, from 2005 from Signatory Vintage, at 66.1%. The smoky malt of Mull, showing peat smoke, soot and a nutty dried fruit. Maritime, briny and bold. One of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, on Mull. A smouldering coastal dram. A Hebridean peated malt. Coastal smoke over ripe fruit.
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Bottled by Signatory Vintage, this Ledaig, a 16 year old from 2005, drawn from cask 900036 and bottled at 66.1%. The outturn was 512 bottles. Ledaig, the peated malt of Mull's only distillery, keeps the old name the distillery bore when John Sinclair founded it in 1798. Its history is famously broken, with long silences; the buildings once held holiday lets and stored cheese.
Distilled from peated malt in kinked copper stills on soft Mull water, giving a sooty, coastal peat smoke over a fruity sweetness. Ex-Sherry wood added dried fruit to the smoky spirit. Past a decade the smoke softens, the soot and brine settling over ripe fruit. Refill oak lets the peat and brine of Ledaig lead. 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 cask strength 66.1% it is muscular. Peat smoke, brine and a medicinal note, and raisin and a nutty sherry depth build. A BBQ char and a sea salt lift it. A long, ashy finish ends on sea salt. This is Ledaig, the peated malt of the Isle of Mull.
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