Edradour 10 Years Old 2004 Cask #374 (Signatory)

This Edradour was bottled by the Pitlochry bottler Signatory Vintage, a 10 year old, distilled in 2004, from cask 374, bottled at 46%, one of 907 bottles. Edradour is a Highland single malt from the tiny farm distillery at Pitlochry, long called Scotland's smallest. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings.

Distilled slowly in the old farm stillhouse on Ben Vrackie water, building the creamy Edradour style. It was matured in an Oloroso cask, the wood working slowly into the rich malt. Integration folds eugenol (clove) and vanillin (vanilla) into the oily malt, the body fuller and creamier. A small distillery and a hands on approach shape every cask by hand. The worm tubs leave an oily weight that carries through the years in cask. Ben Vrackie water and a long ferment give the rich Edradour make.

At 46% it is smooth and rich. Dried fruit, nut and a soft chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The mouthfeel is thick and oily, the fruit on a creamy body. A long, nutty finish carries dried fruit and a soft spice. This is a rich Highland malt from the pocket glen at Pitlochry.