Edradour 10 Years Old 2005 Cask #74 (Signatory)

This Edradour was bottled by the Pitlochry bottler Signatory Vintage, a 10 year old, distilled in 2005, from cask 74, bottled at 46%. Edradour is a rich, oily Highland single malt made in the old farm buildings above Pitlochry. It keeps the old ways, with an open cast iron mash tun, Oregon pine washbacks and worm tub condensers.

Made in the smallest of stills and condensed in worm tubs, giving the full bodied, creamy Highland spirit. An Oloroso cask held it, shaping the oily spirit over the years. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) knit with the malt, the nutty chocolate deepening. A small distillery and a hands on approach shape every cask by hand. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. Years in oak round the spirit, the dried fruit and chocolate deepening over the oily core.

At 46% it is rich, nutty and full. A rich, oily orchard fruit and almond, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dried fruit and a polished oak give it depth. The finish runs long, nutty and warming. This is a creamy, nutty Highland single malt.