Tasting 2 peated Tobermories, or Ledaig as they're called

One could say that Ledaig is Tobermory's equivalence to Port Charlotte at Bruichladdich. Heavily peated and usually bottled at a young age.



















Ledaig 10yo 1992-2002 45% Blackadder cask#115

White wine color on this youngster, 10 years on wood and 10 years on glass, what to expect? It smells peaty, ashy, bonfire, garden leaves, beer, medicinal, oysters, salt, seaweed, dried fish. This is about as close to Islay as you come tastewise, without being there. The taste is peaty, peppery, vanilla, bananas, lemon, the low strength makes the palate quite short and there is not much of a finish in this one. But still its a good whisky I believe would've been great at CS.

A perfect example of a 5.5 in my book: 5.5


Ledaig 7yo 2005-2012 63.5% Big Market

A much more recent bottling, and at CS indeed. But very young. I remember there was some raving reviews of a 4 or 5yo some years back. I believe it was a Berry Bros & Rudd bottling. Big Market bottles 4cl miniatures, not 5cl. The color is light golden. It smells of alcohol, spirity, peaty, seems a bit too much, I'll give it some 15 minutes. Now it seems weeter on the nose, flour sugar, peaty, vanilla, peppery, lemon, ginger, smoky. The taste is peppery, peaty, salty, peanuts, olive oil, oranges, honey, smoke, lime, linseeds, cream cheese, spicy. This is, for me, a bit unfinished, but if you like your young CS Laphroaig, you'll definitively enjoy this a lot.

Young, raw, spirity, but beyond that, excellent coastal whisky: 7.5



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