Edradour Ballechin 18 Years Old Cask #Batch 002

Small Batch Bottling – Cask Strength Edition

700ml / 57.8%

Single Malt

$189

An 18 year old Ballechin from the distillery, at 57.8%. A rich, smoky fruit over an oily body, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The tiny stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, smoky spirit. Ballechin was first distilled in 2003 as Edradour’s peated make. This is a rich, smoky malt from one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries.

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SKU EDD009 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

Ballechin from the distillery, an 18 year old, from 2006, cask Batch 002, at 57.8%. Ballechin is a heavily peated Highland single malt made at Edradour near Pitlochry. Its water comes from the Ben Vrackie springs in the hills above the distillery.

The spirit was run through the small stills, the peat smoke carried into a rich, oily make, for the smoky, oily Ballechin make. An Oloroso cask held it, shaping the oily spirit over the years. At oxidative maturity vanillin and lactones are expressed, the smoke folding into the nutty, oily malt. Refill oak lets the rich, oily Edradour character lead the way. A 2018 expansion added a second still house, the production still small and traditional. It is one of the smallest traditional distilleries in Scotland, long run by just two or three hands. Years in oak round the spirit, the dried fruit and chocolate deepening over the oily core.

At a natural 57.8% it is full and oily. A rich smoke over dried fruit and chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Soft ash and a nutty oil sit behind the cask. The close is oily and smoky, fruit over a tarry oak. This is Ballechin's heavily peated, oily style.