Edradour Natural Cask Strength – 11th Release 13 Years Old 2003

Natural Cask Strength – 11th Release

700ml / 61.7%

Single Malt

$281

An official Edradour, a 13 year old, 2003, at 61.7%. Rich and oily, with dried fruit, chocolate and a creamy vanilla. Its tiny stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, full bodied spirit. Run by just a handful of hands in a pocket glen at Pitlochry. Founded in 1825, it keeps the old ways in its farm buildings. This is Edradour’s full bodied, sherried Highland style.

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SKU EDD152 Categories Edradour, Highlands, Scottish Whisky, Whiskey Brand: Edradour

Description

This official Edradour, a 13 year old, from 2003, at 61.7%, 1741 bottles in all. Edradour is a rich Highland malt from the pocket glen at Balnauld, distilled since 1825. It is one of the smallest traditional distilleries in Scotland, long run by just two or three hands.

It was worked through Oregon pine washbacks and tiny stills for a rich, oily spirit, for the rich, oily make Edradour is known for. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, oak lactones lending vanilla and a little coconut. Through integration spirit and wood marry, vanillin settling into a rounded vanilla as ethyl esters lend a riper apple and dried fruit. The worm tubs leave an oily weight that carries through the years in cask. A rare Morton refrigerator still cools the wort, one of the last in use in Scotland. Under Signatory the range has grown to a wide run of sherry and wine cask bottlings.

At 61.7%, undiluted, it is deep and concentrated. Dried fruit, chocolate and a nutty oil, with a soft vanilla from the oak. Soft chocolate and a nutty oil sit behind the cask. A rich finish ends on dried fruit and a soft oak. This is a creamy, nutty Highland single malt.