Product description
In 2002 Signatory Vintage Co. acquired then the smallest Scottish distillery, Edradour, for £5.4 million.
In the next few years the new owners expanded product range tenfold releasing a lot of bottlings finished in various types of wood, many of them single cask. In no time, Edradour earned cult status and hundreds of thousands of followers around the world. Edradour presented here was distilled on October 12, 1999 (the distillery was then still owned by Campbell Distillers, subsidiary of Pernod Ricard), aged in refill bourbon hogsheads for 13 years, then was re-casked into Premier Grand cru Bordeaux wine casks (nos. 820 + 821 + 825) for additional 46 months. The whisky was bottled at natural strength of 55.2% abv, of natural color and without chill filtration on May 24, 2017 with an outrun of 911 bottles.
Nose: rich, dark grapes, blackberries, raspberries, orange peel, roasted almonds, milk chocolate, toffee, cinnamon, nutmeg, hints of tobacco, and leather.
Palate: winey, blackberries, cherry preserve, chocolate-coated orange peel, vanilla, allspice, cinnamon, dash of licorice, and toasted oak.
Finish: pretty long, with notes of mixed berries, orange peel, nougat, vanilla, milk chocolate, dash of black pepper and oak.