Ledaig reviews

I've always been a bit of a Ledaig fan boy and have usually loved what I've had, especially the Amontillado cask one ... wowzers! The 18 was OK but I think bourbon (or a certain type of sherry ;) gen…

Crann means as much as 'tree' in Gaelic (and Irish), which is ‘boom’ in Flemish. It was therefore easy to choose the name for the whisky club from the Antwerp municipality of Boom. And occasionally they…

Ledaig barely needs an introduction, right? The peated version of Tobermory. The name means 'safe haven' and it was also the original name of the distillery, until the village of Tobermory burst at the…

Ledaig doesn't make its way to Ontario very often and that's kind of a shame. This one is decently priced by LCBO standards and checks all the right anorak and/or Ralfy-approved boxes:* Respectable abv…

I tried a sample of this from a friend's bottle and just had to go get my own while the shop still had a couple bottles. Ledaig is distilled at Tobermory Distillery on the Isle of Mull and is their…

The advantage as well as disadvantage of tasting as much as I do is that I often think I have a series ready for publication, but by the time I am ready to put the notes online, a new release will appear…

To end in style with this series of Ledaig, we’ll try this 33 years old from Dearly Beloved’s year of birth. I tried this malt before during one of Michiel Wigman’s and Jeroen Koetsier’s fabulous tast…

The new entry level range from G&M was dubbed Discovery. This Ledaig, the peated version of Tobermory, appeared in this series in 2018. It’s a mix of both bourbon and sherry casks and was bottled at…

The ninth and final Ledaig from the Connoisseurs Choice series is offered in new livery. Also, it belongs in the sub-category ‘Wood Finished’. This one matured on Refill Sherry Hogsheads, but then got…

I recently was offered the possibility to try no less than nine Ledaig from Gordon & Macphail’s Connoisseurs Choice head-to-head, all distilled between 1990 and 2004 and bottled between 2011 and 2017.…