Discovery Ledaig 12 Year Old

Discovery Ledaig 12 Year-Old

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Discovery Ledaig 10 Year Old

Tasting Notes

Aroma Peat smoke opens to reveal notes of maple cured meat, toffee, and baked apples. Seaside grasses aromas linger and finish in a gentle briney edge.

Taste Stewed fruits, sultanas and currants with milk chocolate flavours combine with crème brûlée. Sweet toffee is complemented by bursts of citrus and a smouldering bonfire ember edge.

Finish Long, with nuances of peat smoke and charred oak.

Whisky Details

Ledaig

Rather confusingly, Ledaig (pronounced ‘Laycheck’) also goes under the name Tobermory and is to be found - unsurprisingly in the town of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.

Established in 1823, the distillery draws it water from the Ledaig Burn and this highly distinctive whisky has a true character all of its own: think smoked, barbecued meat, spicy black pepper and a vanilla sweetness.

On paper, three very disparate flavours, but Ledaig, despite its extremes is a surprisingly balanced whisky and has developed a genuine cult following amongst whisky drinkers worldwide, working exceptionally well as both a young whisky, as well as one with great age and wisdom.

Tobermory

Originally known as Ledaig Distillery was established in 1797 by John Sinclair. In the 1930s the distillery stopped operating for 41 years before being reopened in 1993 by Burn Stewart Distillers (now part of Distell). After undertaking major refurbishment in 2017, the distillery reopened its doors and fired up the stills once more in 2019.