Edradour IBISCO Decanter 30 Years Old 1993

Edradour from the distillery, a 30 year old, from 1993, cask 302, at 56%, 562 bottles in all. Edradour is a Highland single malt distilled in a pocket glen near Pitlochry since 1825. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings.

It was run through the small stills with their boil ball purifiers, building the creamy Edradour style. Finished in an Oloroso cask, the wood building over the oily, full bodied spirit. At a great, fragile age oxidation rules, sotolon lending maple and dried fig as beeswax and a nutty chocolate linger. Signatory's wide cask range gives the small distillery an unusual variety of finishes. The distillery sits in a pocket glen at Balnauld, in the hills above Pitlochry in Perthshire. A small distillery and a hands on approach shape every cask by hand. The cool Highland air of the glen gives a slow, even maturation in the small Edradour warehouses.

At a hearty 56% it carries real weight. A rich, oily orchard fruit and almond, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. It is rich and oily, the full bodied spirit shining through. The finish is long, oily and gently spiced. This is a Highland single malt of real character.