Edradour Ballechin 2009 Cask #347

SFTC – Oloroso Sherry Cask Matured

500ml / 58.1%

Single Malt

$140

A 12 year old Ballechin from the distillery, at 58.1%. A smoky, fruity malt of peat, dried fruit and a soft spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Signatory’s wide cask range gives it an unusual variety of finishes. Edradour keeps the old ways, with worm tubs and Oregon pine washbacks. This is a rich, smoky malt from one of Scotland’s smallest distilleries.

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SKU EDD052 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

This official Ballechin, a 12 year old, from 2009, cask 347, at 58.1%, 930 bottles in all. Ballechin is a heavily peated Highland single malt made at Edradour near Pitlochry. A rare Morton refrigerator still cools the wort, one of the last in use in Scotland.

The spirit was made from malt peated to around fifty parts per million in the tiny stills, for a heavy, smoky spirit with an oily depth. It was matured in an Oloroso cask, the wood working slowly into the rich malt. Integration folds eugenol (clove) and vanillin (vanilla) into the smoky malt, the body fuller and oilier. Ben Vrackie water and a long ferment give the rich Edradour make. For years its sign read Scotland's smallest distillery; it now calls itself Scotland's little gem. The peated Ballechin lays heavy smoke over the rich, oily Edradour spirit. Ballechin was first distilled in 2003, the malt peated to around fifty parts per million.

At a natural 58.1% it is full and oily. Peat smoke, fig and a soft chocolate, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. A dried fruit and a tarry oak give it depth. A rich finish ends on soft ash and dried fruit. This is Ballechin, Edradour's peated single malt.