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This Ledaig, a 12 year old, bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company, at 50.3%. A peated island malt, with a sooty smoke, sea salt and a honeyed vanilla. Smoke and sea salt throughout. From Mull’s only distillery, founded in 1798. Sea salt and soft smoke. A peated Hebridean classic. Smoke and fruit, well aged.
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This is a Ledaig, bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company, a 12 year old release and bottled at 50.3%. Only 360 bottles were released. Ledaig is the smoky side of Tobermory distillery on the Isle of Mull, one of Scotland's oldest distilleries. The distillery makes two malts: the unpeated Tobermory and the peated Ledaig.
It was 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. By this age the peat rounds into a sweeter, coastal smoke. Long maturation turns fierce young smoke into a rounded, coastal peat. 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. Both malts feed the Scottish Leader and Black Bottle blends as well as single malt. The distillery was refurbished and its stills renewed between 2017 and 2019.
At a natural 50.3% it is bold and full. A sooty smoke with tar and brine, and the refill bourbon lends a quiet vanilla. The texture is oily, the smoke threaded with sea salt. Soot and brine see out a long finish. This is Ledaig's smoky, maritime single malt.
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