Review #139: Ledaig Limited Release 18yr Small Batch Sherry

Island - 18 Year - NCF - NCA - Sample ($130 at the local if I had to guess) - 46.3%


Color - Burnished

Nose - Peat, smoked oysters, ocean brine, honey, vanilla, apricots, orange marmalade

Taste - Apricot jam, vanilla, clove, richness, sea shells

Finish - - Vanilla, treacle, nutmeg, pepper, stewed apples, smoked seawater

Overall - 5.5 - This is quite a lovely dram, sweet, funky and peaty.  I think that the sherry finish was a little underwhelming here.  Maybe a first fill sherry or more time in the sherry barrel would have brought the sherry out a little more to balance things out.  Instead, the nose and finish was brine, sweatness, wood and peat with little sherry poking through. 

Rating system is price influenced as it is based on my shopping decisions when buying a bottle.

10 Best in Show
9 Great Dram for Special Occasions
8 Worthy of consistent spot in my collection
7 Worth picking up a bottle if in the mood
6 I would buy a bottle if it went on sale
5.5 Solid Dram, but they probably wouldn't discount enough to buy
5 I would drink it happily if offered
4 I would drink it if offered on the rocks
3 Maybe some soda will make this potable
2 I'll Pass
1 Toilet cleaner

Inclusive Ratings
Overall 6.2
Standard Deviation 0.92
Skew 0.66
Kurtosis -0.16