Edradour Ballechin 2007 Cask #17

SFTC – Oloroso Sherry Cask Matured

500ml / 60.4%

Single Malt

$166

An official Ballechin, an 11 year old, 2007, at 60.4%. A rich, smoky fruit over an oily body, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Ballechin is the heavily peated single malt from tiny Edradour at Pitlochry. Water comes from the Ben Vrackie springs above the distillery. This is the oily, smoky malt of Ballechin.

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SKU EDD041 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

This official Ballechin, an 11 year old, from 2007, cask 17, at 60.4%, 874 bottles in all. Ballechin is Edradour's smoky single malt, peated to around fifty parts per million. The distillery sits in a pocket glen at Balnauld, in the hills above Pitlochry in Perthshire.

The spirit was made from malt peated to around fifty parts per million in the tiny stills, giving a rich, peated Highland spirit. An Oloroso cask held it, shaping the oily spirit over the years. In integration lactones (coconut) and vanillin (vanilla) join the smoke, the dried fruit deepening beneath. The tiny stills and worm tubs give an oily spirit that takes the cask well. Long ageing turns the rich make towards dried fruit, fig and a soft spice. Signatory's wide cask range gives the small distillery an unusual variety of finishes. The full bodied spirit shows the cask clearly, the sherry and oak to the fore.

At a natural 60.4% it is full and oily. Peat, chocolate and a waxy oil, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Beneath the smoke run dried fruit, chocolate and a soft oil. Peat smoke, dried fruit and a soft oak see out a long finish. This is a heavily peated Highland malt from Pitlochry.