As I'm sure you all know, Ledaig is the peated version produced at Tobermory distillery, and as much heavily peated whisky these days, this as well was bottled at a very young age.
Ledaig 7yo 2004-2012 60.4% A.D. Rattray cask#900161
The label says that this bottling is "part". That means, as I read it, that just a part of the cask has been bottled, or that the bottler shared the cask with another company. This one comes from a sherry butt. The color is deep amber. It smells peaty, leather, honey, spicy, mustard, nutty, peppery, ashes, toasted bread, burnt, cigars, dark chocolate. Pretty superb, another kinda peat than the Islay peat character, more earthy and rich. The taste is sweet, peppery, burnt, bitter, peppery, lime, lime zest, extremely bitter, vinegar, dry white wine, a real nice whisky for those that like them young and fragrant. The finish is long, peaty and peppery. This gentle Ledaig seems to have lost some of its coastal character, but its still a damn good dram.
At this age it's good, in 5 more years I think it'd have been superb: 7.5
Next tasting: Talisker Distillery
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