Product description
Built by local Perthshire farmers in 1810, the Ballechin Distillery was located close to the Edradour distillery.
This small, 90,000-litre-a-year facility produced whisky until 1927, with the last barrels disappearing from storage six years later. Signatory Vintage Whisky Co., which acquired Edradour in 2002, immediately began distilling small quantities of malt whisky with a phenol concentration of 50ppm. This would debut four years later as Ballechin. The whisky presented here, distilled in November 2005, spent over 17 years in eight Burgundy hogshead casks (no. 327-334). The whisky was bottled at cask strength (53.5% abv) and without chill filtration on 5 July 2023 in an edition of 2,103 bottles.
Nose: A beautiful combination of ripe berries and peat smoke, blackberries, black cherries, raspberries, Christmas gingerbread, mocha, a touch of black pepper and potpourri.
Palate: mild peat smoke, cherries, plums, blackberries, dried apricots, salted caramel, vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted almonds, notes of pepper and oak.
Finish: long, fruity and smoky, with notes of red berries, raisins, vanilla, a touch of cinnamon, tobacco and oak.