A single-cask Edradour from a first-fill sherry butt, distilled in 2011 and bottled at cask strength in 2021. The label carries artwork by the Japanese artist Hiroyuki Matsuura, so it is as much a piece to display as a whisky to open.
About This Whisky
Cask #226 was a first-fill sherry butt. Ten years in fresh sherry wood is enough for the cask to take a strong hand, giving deep colour and dried fruit, while Edradour's weighty spirit keeps up with it. The whisky was bottled in 2021 at a natural 57.2% ABV, and the cask yielded 631 bottles. It belongs to an artist-label series released under the Precious Liquors name, with the bottle dressed in Matsuura's work.
Tasting Profile
- Nose: Raisin, dark cherry and cocoa, with walnut, orange peel and a little clove.
- Palate: Full and chewy, with Christmas cake, dark chocolate, stewed plum and firm oak spice.
- Finish: Long and nutty, with dried fig, espresso and a warm sherry glow.
Serving & Food
Pour a small measure at room temperature and taste it at full strength first; at 57.2% a little water calms the spirit and lets the fruit through. Good partners include roast duck with plum sauce, Manchego with quince paste or a slab of dark fruit cake.
How to Enjoy
Fans of heavily sherried, cask-strength Highland malt, and anyone who enjoys artist-label bottles for the shelf.
Product Details
Distillery: Edradour
Origin: Highlands, Scotland
Style: Single malt Scotch whisky
Distilled / Bottled: 2011 / 2021
Age: 10 Year Old
Cask: First-fill sherry butt #226
Label artwork: Hiroyuki Matsuura
ABV: 57.2%
Volume: 700mL
Outturn: 631 bottles
About the Distillery
Edradour sits in a small glen above Pitlochry in Perthshire. Distilling on the site is usually dated to 1825, when a group of local farmers set up a licensed still, and for most of its life it has been one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland. The stills are tiny by industry standards and are cooled by traditional worm tubs, which helps give the spirit a rich, oily texture.
In 2002 Andrew Symington, founder of the independent bottler Signatory Vintage, bought the distillery from Pernod Ricard. He kept the old equipment, began making the peated Ballechin in 2003 and, from 2018, added a matching second stillhouse, Edradour II, to meet demand. Sherry and wine casks are central to the house style, and single cask releases are a big part of what the distillery puts out.
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