Sold outIn short · Tobermory (Islands), 12 years.
“A deep and charismatic nose greeted the panel, one that brimmed with carbolic acidity, coal tar smoke, roof felt, bitumen on pine timbers and dusty phenolic kiln smoke.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 42.82 is a single cask of Tobermory, in the Islands region, 12 years old, bottled at 58.2%. Every Society bottle numbered 42.x is from Tobermory.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At the head of the bay in Tobermory, the brightly painted harbour town at Mull's northern tip, the island's only distillery was founded as Ledaig in 1798 by John Sinclair. It has closed and reopened more often than most, and now makes two spirits: unpeated Tobermory, fresh and coastal, and a heavily peated sibling that keeps the old name, Ledaig. Distell's, now Heineken's.