Edradour 10 Years Old 2013 Cask #155 (LMDW)

This Edradour was bottled by the Paris house La Maison du Whisky, a 10 year old, distilled in 2013, from cask 155, bottled at 59.6%, one of 681 bottles. Edradour is a small, traditional Highland single malt, owned by Signatory since 2002. A 2018 expansion added a second still house, the production still small and traditional.

The spirit was made in the smallest of stills and condensed in worm tubs, for the rich, oily make Edradour is known for. 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. Ben Vrackie water and a long ferment give the rich Edradour make. Its water comes from the Ben Vrackie springs in the hills above the distillery. The distillery sits in a pocket glen at Balnauld, in the hills above Pitlochry in Perthshire.

At its natural 59.6% it is rich and full bodied. 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. Dried fruit, chocolate and a soft oak see out a long finish. This is Edradour, one of Scotland's smallest distilleries.