Product description
Founded by local Perthshire farmers in 1810, the Ballechin Distillery was based close to the Edradour distillery.
The small, 90,000-litre-a-year operation produced whisky until 1927, with the last barrels disappearing six years later. Signatory Vintage Whisky Co., which acquired Edradour in 2002, immediately began distilling small quantities of malt whisky at 50ppm phenols. This would debut four years later as Ballechin. The one shown here, distilled on 26 May 2003, was finished in a first-fill sherry butt no. 808. The whisky was bottled at cask strength (54% abv) on 25 August 2021 for La Maison du Whisky in Paris in an edition of 718 bottles. The shop celebrated its 65th anniversary the year before.
Nose: peat smoke, bouquet of garden flowers, barley malt, vanilla, honey, freshly roasted coffee beans, sugared nuts, nutmeg and oak.
Palate : rich peat smoke, grilled bacon, barbecue sauce, caramel, vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted almonds, licorice, black pepper and oak.
Finish : long, with notes of peat smoke, raisins, dried plums, roasted almonds, black pepper, a touch of tobacco and oak.