Edradour 10 Years Old 2012 Cask #275 (Signatory)

The Pitlochry bottler Signatory Vintage bottled this Edradour, a 10 year old, distilled in 2012, from cask 275, bottled at 46%. Edradour is a Highland single malt from Perthshire, traditional and tiny, now Scotland's little gem. Its tiny copper stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, full bodied spirit.

Distilled slowly in the old farm stillhouse on Ben Vrackie water, giving the full bodied, creamy Highland spirit. It was matured in an Oloroso cask, the wood working slowly into the rich malt. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) knit with the malt, the nutty chocolate deepening. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. A gentle maturation suits the oily make, the nutty richness growing with time. The full bodied spirit shows the cask clearly, the sherry and oak to the fore. It was founded in 1825, growing out of an old farmers' cooperative in the glen above Pitlochry.

Reduced to 46%, it is mellow. A rich, oily orchard fruit and almond, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A baked apple and a gentle spice lift it. The close is oily and warming, fruit over a gentle oak. This is the oily, rich malt of tiny Edradour.