Ledaig 19 Year Marasla Finish

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Very few bottles of this 19-year-old, Marsala Finished Tobermory are coming to Calgary, exclusively to KWM. Bottled at 51% it scored 89pts from Whisky Advocate!

Evan's Tasting Note

Nose: Pungent, earthy peat. Ashy smoke and oak, grass fire, salt and pepper seasoning, strawberry quince jam, oranges, cloves, roasted sweet potatoes, dark chocolate drizzled on crispy bacon.

Palate: Ash and spice right up front lead into strawberries, green apples, orange marmalade, chocolate chips, bacon bits, lemons roasted on the barbeque, rooibos tea, root beer and candied ginger. Lingering earthy smoke and chocolate on the finish.

Comment: An ashy, smoke driven older Ledaig with finesse. The Marsala cask finish has added nuance to the often carbon-heavy delivery of heavily peated Tobermory.

Distiller's Tasting Note

Beautiful rich single malt with a mouth-filling sweetness of berries and dark chocolate with a full peat explosion of black pepper and bonfire smoke.

89pts Whisky Advocate: "Some of the first peated spirit produced in the late 1990s at Tobermory Distillery has gone into this bottling, which has been finished in Marsala wine casks. The nose yields earthy malt, new leather, printer’s ink, and a final fragrant note. Big, bright flavours of orchard fruits and sweet peat on the palate, plus black pepper and dessert wine. Ashy peat, burnt oak, and lingering pepperiness in the finish."

750 ml