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I still haven’t visited the Isle of Mull where the Tobermory distillery lies quietly producing malt for not one but two brands. The brand for the namesake of the distillery gives you traditional Island style whisky whereas the Ledaig is a much heavier phenolic concoction. When this blog fell as little silent Tobermory had closed […]
The last dram was a powerful and imposing one from the Isle of Mull. The peated spirit from the Tobermory distillery is known as Ledaig. The name Ledaig was the original name for the distillery which dates from 1798 until the name change in 1918 to Tobermory. The Distillery The distillery was built in 1798 […]
Yesterday I found out that Fox Fitzgerald own the Rest and Be Thankful brand. Today, I am letting the 2 people who read this blog and don’t know the owners of Boutique-y Whisky Co that it is in fact owned by the Master of Malt website. Branded towards the younger end of the whisky market […]
I like my peat whisky and I like to try new ones so this one sounds interesting. I have not heard of this before or the bottler Fox Fitzgerald so it has to be tried. The Bottler The Fox Fitzgerald company was founded in 2010 by Eamonn Jones and Aidan Smith which work as part […]
I have an uneasy relationship with Ledaig which might be explained by only having tried Independent bottlings rather than official ones. However, I can go from enjoying a bottle immensely to not clicking with another at all. This is further confused by their malted barley coming from the Port Ellen malting which gives the Islay […]
Without wanting to appear like these blog posts are planned we are leaving Islay today and jumping across to the Isle of Mull and the Tobermory distillery. The Ledaig brand from the Tobermory distillery is the peated whisky which is produced in small amounts throughout the year. What makes Tobermory and Ledaig interesting and a […]
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