Edradour Ballechin 2010 Cask #307

Bourbon Cask Matured

700ml / 57.1%

Single Malt

$124

An 11 year old Ballechin from the distillery, at 57.1%. Peat, fig and a soft chocolate fill the glass. Signatory’s wide cask range gives it an unusual variety of finishes. Owned since 2002 by the independent bottler Signatory Vintage. Made at one of the smallest traditional distilleries in Scotland. This is a peated Highland single malt of real weight.

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SKU EDD064 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

An 11 year old Ballechin, a distillery bottling, from 2010, cask 307, at 57.1%, 231 bottles in all. Ballechin is the smoky side of Edradour, a heavily peated malt from Pitlochry. It was founded in 1825, growing out of an old farmers' cooperative in the glen above Pitlochry.

It was made from malt peated to around fifty parts per million in the tiny stills, for a smoky, oily make of peat and dried fruit. First fill bourbon gave a fuller vanilla and a touch of coconut from the lactones. Integration folds eugenol (clove) and vanillin (vanilla) into the smoky malt, the body fuller and oilier. The worm tubs leave an oily weight that carries through the years in cask. Its tiny copper stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, full bodied spirit. The distillery sits in a pocket glen at Balnauld, in the hills above Pitlochry in Perthshire. A rare Morton refrigerator still cools the wort, one of the last in use in Scotland.

At its natural 57.1% it is rich and full bodied. A smoky, oily sweetness, with a soft vanilla from the oak. It is rich and smoky, the oily spirit shining through. The finish runs long, smoky and warming. This is a rich, smoky malt from one of Scotland's smallest distilleries.