Edradour Small Batch 12 Years Old 2011

This official Edradour, a 12 year old, from 2011, cask 51-58, at 48.2%, 2921 bottles in all. Edradour is a small, traditional Highland single malt, owned by Signatory since 2002. Its tiny copper stills and worm tubs give a rich, oily, full bodied spirit.

It was drawn off the tiny stills and cooled in worm tubs for an oily make, giving the full bodied, creamy Highland spirit. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, oak lactones lending vanilla and a little coconut. Integration folds eugenol (clove) and vanillin (vanilla) into the oily malt, the body fuller and creamier. Ben Vrackie water and a long ferment give the rich Edradour make. A rare Morton refrigerator still cools the wort, one of the last in use in Scotland. Years in oak round the spirit, the dried fruit and chocolate deepening over the oily core. Signatory's wide cask range gives the small distillery an unusual variety of finishes.

At cask strength 48.2% it is big and oily. Dried fruit, nut and a soft chocolate, with a soft vanilla from the oak. The mouthfeel is thick and oily, the fruit on a creamy body. A rich finish ends on dried fruit and a soft oak. This is a rich Highland malt from the pocket glen at Pitlochry.