Edradour 1999 12 Year Old Sauternes Finish 50cl

Edradour 10 Year Old

A small highland distillery, in the 30's it was apparently owned by a New York mobster. It was bought in 2002 from Pernod Ricard by Andrew Symington, who also runs independent bottler Signatory. In some ways its not unlike the Springbank/Cadenhead connection. Stangely the 10 year old is the only one of their whiskys which they "chill...

Score 83/100

Edradour 10 Year Old

I attended a very good class at the LCBO on Highland Single Malts - this was the first we tried. A deep amber colour with a solid body, it had great notes of oak, oatmeal, sherry with some licorice; it even smelled a bit like a hospital corridor (if that makes any sense). Oatmeal again on the tongue, slightly peated, with some caramel and hay with...

Score 85/100

Edradour 1998 Bordeaux - Straight from the Cask

Edradour markets a whole range of wine finishes, bottled in the series Straight from the Cask, meaning the whisky is single cask at cask strength. This one was distilled on 14 September 1998 and then re-casked in a Bordeaux hogshead on 2 May 2007. It got a 3-yer finish before being bottled at the age of 11 years old (in bottles of 50cl) on 15 June...

Score 60/100

Edradour 26 Year Old 1985 PX Cask Finish

The last cask of Edradour from 1985, their oldest stock, was bottled in July 2011. So the label boldly states ‘Farewell to 1985 – Last Cask’. The whisky was finished on PX sherry. But what a cask that must have been if it still yielded 642 bottles after 26 years? Wow. The nose is honeysweet with an absolute Oscar worthy performance of marzipan and...

Score 78/100