Edradour Ballechin 2008 Cask #195

SFTC – Oloroso Sherry Cask Matured

500ml / 59.3%

Single Malt

$186

An 11 year old Ballechin from the distillery, at 59.3%. A smoky, fruity malt of peat, dried fruit and a soft spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Peated to around fifty parts per million, named after a lost local distillery. Ballechin was first distilled in 2003 as Edradour’s peated make. This is a heavily peated Highland malt from Pitlochry.

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SKU EDD045 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

An 11 year old Ballechin, a distillery bottling, from 2008, cask 195, at 59.3%, 984 bottles in all. Ballechin is a rich, smoky Highland single malt from the tiny Edradour distillery. The peated Ballechin lays heavy smoke over the rich, oily Edradour spirit.

Distilled slowly from peated malt in the old farm stillhouse, giving a rich, peated Highland spirit. Finished in an Oloroso cask, the wood building over the oily, full bodied spirit. By the integrating teens congeners fade and esters build, the smoke knitting with the rich, oily spirit. Maturation in the dunnage warehouses at Pitlochry is slow and steady. It once supplied blends such as House of Lords and King's Ransom. The worm tubs leave an oily weight that carries through the years in cask. It was bought in 2002 by Andrew Symington of the independent bottler Signatory Vintage. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings.

Bottled at a cask strength 59.3%, it is rich. A smoky, fruity richness, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Soft ash and a nutty oil sit behind the cask. A long, smoky finish carries dried fruit and a soft ash. This is a peated Highland single malt of real weight.