Edradour 1983 25 Year Old Port Finish

Edradour 10 Year Old

This week I’ll be trying a couple expressions from what is called the smallest distillery in Scotland. I’ll begin with their standard bottling of the Edradour 10 Year Old. The nose, which I find rather closed, reveals mostly woodsmoke, dades and sweet sherry (oloroso?) and something brings soap in a tin to my mind. Complex, to be sure, but I’m not...

Score 70/100

Edradour 18 Year Old 1993 Oloroso Cask Strength

I can hardly find any info about this whisky. I tried it at the pre-masterclass at a festival in Belgium under the guidance of distillery owner Andrew Symington. The distillate from 1993 was put to sleep for 18 long years on an oloroso sherry cask. One bottle short of 600 were filled. Deep sherry on the nose. Dark fruits, bothdry and juicy....

Score 87/100

Edradour 7 Year Old 2006 Ornellaia Cask Sample

At a festival in Belgium some whisky writers and bloggers, myself included, were invited by Andrew Symington for a tasting. He wanted to prove that Edradour’s dubious reputation was undeserved and brought some stuff from the warehouses. He did not wholly succeed with this cask sample of a 7 year Old, not yet on the market, that matured on...

Score 83/100

Edradour 9 Year Old 2010 The Ultimate Cask #404

The Dutch bottler van Wees released a whole series of single casks of Edradour in 2020, all of them at cask strength. Let’s put these head-to-head. This is a 9 years old from 2010, a single 1st fill sherry butt, at a strength of 56.8%! This is another one of those sherry bombs on the nose, but with a twist. While the obligatory dark fruit like...

Score 86/100