Ledaig 2010 TWJ (The Whisky Jury) (52.4%)

From The Whisky Jury comes this Ledaig matured to 10 year old from 2010, drawn from cask 17 and bottled at 52.4%. The outturn was 288 bottles. Ledaig, the peated malt of Mull's only distillery, keeps the old name the distillery bore when John Sinclair founded it in 1798. 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. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, a light sweetness under the peat. Younger here, the peat runs bold over a sweet, fruity core. The heavily peated spirit holds its smoke well across long maturation. 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.

At its natural 52.4% it is concentrated. Wood smoke, BBQ char and a coastal salt, and ex-Bourbon oak gives vanilla and a light sweetness. 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.