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Liquor
Ledaig 1993 Signatory Vintage
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Light beef and oxo cubes. Peat and a touch of smoke. Vanilla custard backing it up Bandage dressings.
Taste
Thick textured. Meat with a touch of barbecued sausage skin. Sweet custard. Water makes more custard creams and beef crisps with a touch of light egg white.
Finish
Slightly dusty. Shortbread and ash. Barbecue sauce. Beef like if water is added and a touch of light milk chocolate.
Liquor
Ledaig 1993 Signatory Vintage
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Light beef and oxo cubes. Peat and a touch of smoke. Vanilla custard backing it up Bandage dressings.
Taste
Thick textured. Meat with a touch of barbecued sausage skin. Sweet custard. Water makes more custard creams and beef crisps with a touch of light egg white.
Finish
Slightly dusty. Shortbread and ash. Barbecue sauce. Beef like if water is added and a touch of light milk chocolate.
Liquor
Ledaig 1994 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Herbal, aromatic nose with hints of mixed spices, creamy custard and a little smoke.
Taste
The palate offers up notes of pear drops, allspice, toffee apples and chocolate-coated Brazil nuts.
Finish
Sweet, spiced finish. Perfume-like with fruit lingering.
Nose
Grilled pineapple rings, golden barley, heather and smoke.
Taste
Seville orange, toffee, double cream, buttery biscuits.
Finish
Quite long, with a light touch of sultana behind the smoky notes.
Liquor
Ledaig 1998 Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Dry peat, brown wrapping paper, fish oil, and wood preservative
Taste
Oily on the palate, with bitter orange, sweet peat, ginger, and black pepper.
Finish
Lingering pepper and Germolene in the ashy finish.
Liquor
Ledaig 1998 Old Particular
Type
ABV
54.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Smoky bacon, sweet peated barley.
Taste
A treacle develops to a dry earth soil flavour with cured meats and damp ash.
Finish
Long and smoky warmth with slight saline, burnt wood.
Liquor
Ledaig 19yo 1998 Pedro Ximénez Finish
Type
ABV
55.7%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Caramelised nuts, sweet, nutty, honey, dusty charcoal smoke, chocolate, meaty venison in dark chocolate sauce, leathery, dried fruit with a touch of sherry balsamic vinegar.
Taste
Smoked dried fruits, raisin, toffee, coffee, chocolate. leather, molasses, dates, fig jam, nutty and a touch mentholic, smoke persists, mint dark chocolate
Finish
Long, sweet polished tofee with smoked & candied walnuts.
Liquor
Ledaig 19yo Marsala Finish
Type
ABV
51%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Salt and pepper crisps, juicy blackberry and sloe, a touch of treacle tart.
Taste
Sherried orange peels, salted caramel and a hefty helping of peat smoke.
Finish
Long and well spiced. Black pepper and cinnamon.
Liquor
Ledaig 2004 Gordon & MacPhail Cask Strength
Type
ABV
58.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Fresh smell from a bakery, sweet burnt grain, malty
Taste
Sweet peat smoke, toffee, vanilla, spicy
Finish
Sweet and slightly salty
Liquor
Ledaig 2004 Signatory Cask Strength (10 old)
Type
ABV
61.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Richly sherried with sweet tobacco, brandied raisins and a big wave of smoke (both phenolic and woody).
Taste
Dried orange peel and quite a bit of salt.
Finish
Long. The smoke and the salt are the main story here and the salt expands with every sip.
Liquor
Ledaig 2004 The Ultimate
Type
ABV
55.7%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Dirty smoke, grainy malt, vanilla frosting, honey, pop of earthiness.
Taste
Honey nut cheerios, lemon peels, malty sweetness and a bit of orchard fruit, minerality, vanilla
Finish
Long . Dirty smoke, fruity candy, malt, lemon peels and a touch metallic.
Liquor
Ledaig 2005 8 Malts of Scotland Highland Laird
Type
ABV
48.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Brine, these olives, this mineral smoke, these limes,coastal freshness, plus hints of ultra-fresh butter
Taste
Pure, zesty, wonderfully angular,smoky, with bits of cracked pepper and perhaps a tiny bit of bacon.
Finish
Long, immaculate, with this minerality in the background, around soot and ashes.