Advent 2022 #23 - Ledaig 10 2009 Bordeaux Red Wine

With how much I love Ledaig and how well wine casks seem to have done for me, this was never something I wasn’t going to buy. Incidentally, I waited long enough to open it and ended up getting this sample bottle in a pack ordered from the distillery, so decided to save it for its day in an Advent calendar, which has now arrived.

Ledaig 10 2009 Bordeaux Red Wine, Island (Mull) Single Malt, 56.9% ABV

Minutia: Distilled in February 2009 and matured for 10 years in ex-Bordeaux Red Wine Casks before bottling in January 2020. Reviewed blind, neat in an opaque glencairn.

Color: Auburn, polished mahogany; 1.5.

Nose: Smoked brisket, wine, marshmallow.

Taste: Great feel. Smoke, wood, pepper. Ash, coffee. Tar.

Finish: Tobacco, pepper, musty. Medium-long.

Guess: Ledaig Bordeaux

I have been looking forward to trying this since the moment I heard of it, and boy was I right to feel that way. So many notes that weren’t quite novel, but presented in a more concentrated way that I really enjoyed. It reminds me a bit of how in the first year the final dram was an unbelievably good Ledaig. Missed it by a day for the same thing here, but good enough for me.

Score: 92