58,8°
Distillery : Tobermory - Islands
Refill Sherry Butt
Independent Bottling
By Signatory Vintage
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2022
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 37 ppm
20 years and nine months is a reasonable age for a Ledaig, the distillate is polished by time and we start to experiment with some really interesting things. What's more, this is a Refill Sherry Butt, which promises to be very fruity. The cask was selected by La Maison du Whisky to be part of the Antipodes collection, but it's sold just about everywhere. 536 bottles were produced.
Let's Taste It :
Powerful sherry, ashy liquorice, honey and torched red fruits, smoke-coated cinnamon, walnuts, hot chestnuts, burnt caramel. Tar-soaked leather, dried fruits, dates, apricots. Curry, paprika. It's liquorish on the palate, fruit coulis, sticky honey, thick peat but a little in the background. Oven-roasted orchard fruits and hot ashes, lively spices, cumin, cloves. Very long and powerful finish, never-ending, charcoal, pastry cream, a zest of lemon, a dash of salt, discreet iodine, fuel oil, white lime, hot bark.
In Short,
The Sherry is much more intense than expected and the result is an atypical Ledaig, very fruity but still dirty, where the peat is wrapped in leather, nuts and dried fruits. It's very interesting, but I prefer my Ledaig au naturel, with nothing to impede the extreme radicality of the distillate. That said, I'd still give it a good score, as I really liked the finish. The price, on the other hand, is outrageous, and I certainly wouldn't recommend buying it at that price.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
David Judson Clemmons - Learn to Resist
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