Edradour Ballechin 2004 Cask #217

SFTC – Port Cask Matured

500ml / 54.5%

Single Malt

$199

An official Ballechin, a 12 year old, 2004, at 54.5%. Full and smoky, all peat, dried fruit and a soft oil, with red berry, plum and a dry spice from the cask. Made at one of the smallest traditional distilleries in Scotland. Signatory’s wide cask range gives it an unusual variety of finishes. This is a heavily peated Highland malt from Pitlochry.

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SKU EDD019 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

Ballechin from the distillery, a 12 year old, from 2004, cask 217, at 54.5%, 418 bottles in all. Ballechin is the peated expression of Edradour, named after a long lost peated farm distillery nearby. Ballechin was first distilled in 2003, the malt peated to around fifty parts per million.

The spirit was distilled slowly from peated malt in the old farm stillhouse, giving a rich, peated Highland spirit. Finished in a Port cask, the wood building over the oily, full bodied spirit. Integration folds eugenol (clove) and vanillin (vanilla) into the smoky malt, the body fuller and oilier. A gentle maturation suits the oily make, the nutty richness growing with time. The peated Ballechin lays heavy smoke over the rich, oily Edradour spirit. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings. A 2018 expansion added a second still house, the production still small and traditional.

At a hearty 54.5% it carries real weight. Peat smoke, dried fruit and a nutty oil, with red berry, plum and a dry spice from the cask. A dried fruit and a tarry oak give it depth. The close is oily and smoky, fruit over a tarry oak. This is Ballechin, Edradour's peated single malt.