Edradour 10 Years Old 2010 Cask #408 (Signatory)

The Pitlochry bottler Signatory Vintage bottled this Edradour, a 10 year old, distilled in 2010, from cask 408, bottled at 46%. Edradour is a Highland single malt from the tiny farm distillery at Pitlochry, long called Scotland's smallest. Its tiny copper stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, full bodied spirit.

Drawn off the tiny stills and cooled in worm tubs for an oily make, building the creamy Edradour style. It was matured in an Oloroso cask, the wood working slowly into the rich malt. Through integration spirit and wood marry, vanillin settling into a rounded vanilla as ethyl esters lend a riper apple and dried fruit. A small distillery and a hands on approach shape every cask by hand. It once supplied blends such as House of Lords and King's Ransom. A rare Morton refrigerator still cools the wort, one of the last in use in Scotland. Years in oak round the spirit, the dried fruit and chocolate deepening over the oily core.

At 46% it is smooth and rich. Baked apple, marzipan and a creamy malt, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A baked apple and a gentle spice lift it. The finish is long, oily and gently spiced. This is the oily, rich malt of tiny Edradour.