Ledaig 10 Year
$74.99
* This bottle was featured on Day 4 of our 2020 KWM Whisky Calendar, much to Evan's delight.
Bottled at 46.3% ABV, the Ledaig 10-year-old is the flagship heavily-peated release from Tobermory distillery on the Isle of Mull.
Tobermory 12 Year
$81.99
The Tobermory 12-year-old replaces the old flagship 10-year old, which is now out of production. The 12-year-old was aged primarily in ex-Bourbon and other American Oak casks and is bottled at 46.3% ABV.
The quirky ABV is a standard throughout owner Distell's Scottish Whisky brands, which also include Deanston and Bunnahabhain Distillery.
Tobermory Distillery resides on the Isle of Mull which lies west of mainland Scotland. The distillery focuses on creating unpeated whisky for its aptly named Tobermory whisky line as well as a heavily peated style known as Ledaig.
Peat's Beast Single Malt
$71.99
The Peat's Best Single Malt Scotch was featured on Day 4 of our 2021 KWM Whisky Calendar
A mystery peated (33 ppm apparently) single malt bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering. What is the source? We have been told it isn't Islay and the label makes no such claims Islay either. We have our own ideas on where the malt could be from, but we don't know for sure!
Boutique-y Tobermory Batch 9 24 Year
$206.24
Batch 9 of the Boutique-y Whisky Company's Tobermory is a 24 year. We're waiting on further details, but have to say it looks sherried, and it is the oldest whisky we've seen from this distillery in a while! Good price for it's age. 500ml 49.1%
Producer Description: "Our ninth batch from the Isle of Mull’s Tobermory distillery is a 24 Year Old, a release of just 865 bottles at 49.1% abv."
About the Label (Larger Label Under the Tasting Note)
"One of the few labels we’ve changed from the original release. The original label featured the colourful Tobermory harbour scene, much like the BBC Children's series ‘Balamory’ Our label now features more references to Alan Partridge than you can shake a stick at. Why? Because Tobermory is unpeated - there’s no peat/Pete allowed. You can also see our Ledaig label character heading to Islay."
Boutique-y Ledaig Batch 12 17 Year 48.1%
$299.99
Ledaig is the name given to peated malt from the Tobermory distillery. It is an aquired taste for most, but has a cult following from those who love its rough, oily, medicinal profile. And those who wisely listen to Evan's recommendations.
Producer Description: "Our twelfth batch of peated Ledaig from the Isle of Mull’s Tobermory distillery is an 17 Year Old, a release of just 744 bottles at 48.1% abv."
About the Label (Larger Label Image Below)
"The spirit of Ledaig has become a sentient planet smasher and is off to eviscerate his rather more well-known peaty competition! He's off to show that the peatiness of Ledaig whisky can put up a fight against the Islay giants. We're expecting a Dragonball Z style battle between Captain Hammer here and Islay's noble protector (Big Peat, perhaps?), with the fate of the island on the line."
Whisky Agency H&T Ledaig 1995
$429.99
A joint bottling for Heads & Tails with The Whisky Agency, this 25 year old Ledaig has been bottled at 45.9% after maturing in a Hogshead.
Berry's Tobermory 2008 KWM Cask
$149.99
Distilled in 2008, this 13-14-year-old Tobermory was matured in a Sherry Butt, cask 900166, before bottling at an impressive 64.8%. This is our first ever single cask of Tobermory, and it is a massive and sherried coastal dram! 504 bottles in total.
A missive from Evan on this bottle, and Tobermory in general:
The spirit distilled by Tobermory typically falls into the sabre-rattling love-it or leave-it categories with most whisky fans. There is no middle ground: a vast and barren no man's land keeps these conflicting groups apart. As you would guess, I am well-dug into the trenches on the love-it side of the battlefield. So is my comrade in arms; Harmony. She and I happily spread the good word of Tobermory and Ledaig with evangelistic fervour to all who would listen. Sadly, Curt and Andrew - being the philistines they are - have found less to enjoy from this remarkable island distillery. Keen to wallow in their closed-minded wrong-headedness, they spend much of their spare time rabble-rousing and lobbing insults at us from the safety of their pathetic ditch across the way.
Amazingly, this specific and singular single-cask of Tobermory has managed to create a sort of detente, with the four of us being so utterly impressed by the cask sample we tasted of this that we had to have it for the store. Andrew's own tasting notes mention something akin to Ledaig simmering in the depths of the high-octane liquid (64.8% ABV!). I believe he means that as a compliment. If that is true, then it is truly shocking, but I have no choice but to agree! We are all glad we selected this single cask, which is unpeated but bursting with flavour nonetheless.
Scroll down to find my tasting notes which are sure to provide you with even more reason to join Harmony and me on the front lines, fighting the good fight and defending against any haters. For, this isn't just another bottle of whisky: it is a rallying cry meant to be taken up by all Tobermory lovers everywhere!
Boutique-y Ledaig Bt.11 21 Year
$262.99
Distilled in 1997, and matured in a single Sherry Butt, this 21 year old Ledaig (peated Tobermory), is the 11th release from That Boutique-y Whisky Company, and has been bottled at 48.7%.
Producer Description
"We’ve had some wonderful Ledaig, and here’s another release! Our 11th batch , a 21 Year Old, from a single butt, distilled in September 1997. We’ve bottled this at 48.7% abv. This Island distillery was founded way back in 1798, and originally called the Ledaig distillery. Today it’s known as the Tobermory distillery. The modern incarnation of the Ledaig brand came in 2007."
About the Label
"Single malt is released under both names, with Ledaig being reserved for the peated versions with a phenol content of 30-40ppm. Our label shows the spirit of Ledaig as a sentient planet smasher and off to eviscerate his rather more well-known peaty competition!"
Whisky Sponge Ledaig 2005 Ed. No.70
$519.99
This 17 year old Ledaig (heavily peated Tobermory) was distilled in 2005, and matured in a rather active 2nd Fill Sherry Butt. Bottled at 62.1%. 89.38pts Whiskybase
Producer Note
"Every so often we try some casks and think ‘we just absolutely have to bottle this!’. This 2005 Ledaig was one such occasion. Comprised of two 2nd fill sherry butts of 2005 Lediag that were clearly still very active and had matured in warehouse conditions which had delivered a highly concentrative maturation profile resulting in very low levels of whisky remaining in cask, at naturally very high strengths. The resulting whisky displayed such an intense and pure expression of sherry and peat we were instantly reminded of some of the great 1972 Ledaigs from sherry casks."