Ledaig Limited Release (Batch #2) 18 year 750 ml

From the Tobermory Distillery on the Isle of Mull comes Ledaig 18 Year Limited Release Batch #2, a peated island single malt Scotch that pairs coastal smoke with sherry-cask depth. Ledaig is the distillery's heavily peated make, and eighteen years of aging mellows that smoke into something rounder — sweet peat, brine, and sherried dark fruit on the nose, creamy toffee and raisin cut by black pepper on the palate, and a long, gently spiced finish. Batch releases vary slightly from bottling to bottling, which is part of the draw for the drinkers who chase them. A fireside whisky through and through: pour it neat and let ten minutes in the glass pull the fruit forward.

How to drink Ledaig 18 Year Limited Release Batch #2

Serve it in a tulip or Glencairn glass rather than a tumbler — the shape holds the sherried fruit longer than a wide rocks glass will. A few drops of water can coax the nose open further, but skip the ice; it mutes the smoke more than it helps.

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