Ledaig 10 Year

Pronounced "LEDGE-igg"? Pale yellow/gold color. Not leggy, per se, but with raindrops that stick to the inside of the glass. The nose is lovely, mild tin of vanilla tobacco peat, with just a touch of menthol at the tail end. Some iodine and car fumes; smoke but the kind you gladly close your eyes and inhale. A really nice barley sweetness that balances everything out. A little meaty, but just a little, though with some fennel folded in. The flavor is bonfire peat smoke at the very first sip: spent matches and lots of salt and black pepper spices. Cinnamon gum, like the bite of a Big Red. The peat permeates the whole thing. Barley and toffee to round out the swallow. The finish is prickly salt rock and white pepper. Lots of spice: cinnamon, star anise, fennel. Peat smoke and rich potting soil. The rock salt sticks until the very end. I am truly delighted by Ledaig: it's wonderfully balanced, with lots of peat but not fetishizing it. It's got salt, pepper, smoke and a sweet barley finish. Highly recommended.

Such an earthy swampy smoke. It pulls you in and tells a very dark, mossy story.

Peaty, vanilla, quote mellow.

Nose smell like lemon. Taste fruitty and peaty at the same time but not the heavy burned smokiness. Finish is spicy, with taste of cinnamon or pepper. The spicy after taste stays on very long on the tongue, caught abit of pear.