56°
Distillery : Tobermory - Islands
2d Fill Hogshead
Independent Bottling
By The Whisky Jury
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2025
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 37 ppm
It seems that The Whisky Jury released this one to celebrate its sixth anniversary. It is a very respectable bottling, aged for 13 years and 7 months in a second-fill Hogshead, which allows the distillate to express itself fully. There are 317 bottles on the market, which is not a bad way to mark another year.
Let's Taste It :
Iodine and limestone, slightly dirty rocks, dotted with earth, beautiful maritime breadth, sea air, white chalk and vanilla, it's slightly woody, a dash of honey and exotic fruits. Salt stalactites, a zest of citrus, foam and sea spray. On the palate, it's oily, lychees, poached eggs, candied vanilla, oyster juice, white grapes. Then some spices, mirabelle plums, cumin, white pepper. Long and explosive finish, which opens like a flower, coconut, two or three strands of straw, pistachio and icing sugar. Vanilla icing, liquorice stick. Fennel.
In Short,
A very nice bottling, very mineral and iodine-like, with the usual dirtiness, but that doesn't prevent the fruit from blossoming. You're rarely disappointed with Ledaig, and even less so with The Whisky Jury. What's more, the price isn't very high, so I'm starting to regret only buying a sample and not a whole bottle.
Score : 89
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Flawed Mangoes - Surreal
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