Facts about this distillery
Established
1798
Owner
Distell
Annual Capacity
1,000,000 Litres
Region
Islands
Number of Stills
Eight pot stills – four wash, four spirit
Ledaig Distillery. Tobermory’s peated alter ego single malt Scotch.
Unfortunately, Ledaig was never to live up to its Gaelic meaning of ‘safe haven’. It was doomed from the start. Ledaig began distillation in 1798, having been established by John Sinclair. But today, we know it as Tobermory, from the Hebridean Isle of Mull.
From troubled malt to Tobermory
By around 1840, Ledaig fell on hard times and like so many single malt Scotch’s of its day, closed its doors, this time for 40ish years. The distillery was restored, and reopened, but under a different name – Tobermory. Ledaig was no more. Tobermory replaced it in 1972, and stood as the island’s only distillery.
Tobermory is now owned by the Distell Group’s, Burn Stewart Distillers. They brought the Ledaig brand back to life in 2007, with three Ledaig expressions. The first was a heavily peated 10-year-old single malt in contrast to the unpeated Tobermory.
Ledaig lives on?
Ten years later, Burn Stewart introduced the 18-year-old Ledaig – a fruitier, sherried profile than its 10-year-old sibling.
In 2015, the immensely impressive 42-year-old Ledaig Dùsgadh followed. Its nose was close to a very old, sherry matured Islay whisky, which translates as not so much peat, but rather heaps of coal, cold ashes and tobacco leaves. A real rarity of a dram and an old-fashioned treat, the Ledaig Dùsgadh was first released for around £3,000ish a bottle.
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