57,1°
Distillery : Tobermory - Islands
Bourbon Hogshead
Independent Bottling
By A.D. Rattray
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2019
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 37 ppm
This trading company was founded by Andrew Dewar Rattray in 1868. It subsequently acquired the Bowmore distillery, then Glen Garioch and Auchentoshan, before being bought by Beam Suntory. Which is to say that they know a little about whisky. Their Cask Collection range was launched in 2004, and is the best known of the portfolio if not the most prestigious. It includes a collection of Single Casks of good quality, but aged less than 23 years. For older whiskies, there is the Vintage Cask Collection. Here we have an 18 years old Ledaig, aged in a single bourbon cask. 262 copies went on sale at the end of 2019. Note that it is written on the label 'Distilled at Ledaig Distillery', a place which does not exist.
Let's Taste It :
Heavy peat, burnt plastic, iodised breadth, white fruits, plum, vanilla, sour apple, between gravel, gas oil and industrial glue, leather, ointment, tiger balm, neoprene, medicinal touch, bandages, epinephrine, disinfectant, a few dubious products, TCP, modelling clay, fresh cement, elastic. On the palate, very plasticky, with a hint of vanilla and rather strong spices, pepper, cumin, nutmeg. Hints of honey and lemon tea. The peat hits. Thick and hard, with omnipresent smoke. Very long finish, dirty and charred, dusty, pebbly, sticky. Resin, not yet completely dry. Chalky. Rocky. Mirabelle and banana. Some sunny cereals. Wheat, hop.
In Short,
Everything I love about Ledaig. They don’t go into detail. It’s very impressive, but also dividing. A small reservation, it seemed to me that the mouth lacked a little complexity. But the rest is pure wonder, for lovers of the genre. It is not completely sold out everywhere, you can still find some, certainly at an excessive price, but when you love you do not count. Well, not before bankruptcy in any case
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Viagra Boys - Shrimp Shack
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