Ledaig 1990 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Ledaig 7 Year Old - Glenkeir Treasures Selection

I'm not a fine nose and certainly not a fine palate neither. So instead of trying to figure out what I can't describe with the appropriate wording, I will just try to define what the whisky makes me think about and where I would like to drink it. The little bottle of 20ml I'm tasting is a gift from Scotland. There is a label on the back of the...

Score 70/100

Ledaig 17 Year Old 1996 Connoisseurs Choice

I recently was offered the possibility to try no less than nine Ledaig from Gordon & Macphail’s Connoisseurs Choice head-to-head, all distilled between 1990 and 2004 and bottled between 2011 and 2017. Well, that was an opportunity I could not pass up. Let’s give those a go. This is the Ledaig that was distilled in 1996 and bottled in 2013. It...

Score 86/100

Ledaig Malts Of Scotland 1998-2011

Amazing balance, great taste... It's an awesome whisky, but that gives you no real info. If this whisky was a girl, she would clearly be a tall and charming one, probably brown hair. with a nice outfit (red dress?), classic. A touch of perfume but not too much, no make up. It's a girl from the city. If you taste her your will fall in love... but...

Score 89/100

Ledaig 8 Year Old 2007 Beacon Spirits

Beacon Spirits is a new Belgian player on the market of independent bottlers, founded by Patrick Proth. The labels launched with a couple of nice releases such as a Ledaig 2007, Caol Ila 2007, Speyside Finest 1975 (!) and Invergordon 1973 (a joint bottling with Liquid Art, another fairly new Belgian bottler, but more about them later). Then there...

Score 88/100