Edradour 2003 Bourbon Cask Second Release

Edradour 10 Year Old

This whisky is a tough one to review to. It is very subtle and fresh and for me it's hard to describe. When I am nosing this the first time of the evening I only can think of flowers. Never had such a floral nose. Letting it go and searching for more aromas I definitely get some light peat smoke. There is some caramel and candied light fruits like...

Score 80/100

Edradour 9 Year Old 2010 The Ultimate Cask #391

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 58.6%! It has the color of cola! Very intense and deeply sherried nose with all you might expect from a first fill...

Score 88/100

Edradour 8 Year Old 2008 The Ultimate Cask #118

In another era Edradour was sometimes ridiculed as Edrasour, but since Andrew Symington and his team took over, this little distillery in Pitlochry is going from strength to strength. The people of van Wees in Holland noticed this too and have released a whole range of single casks. This week I’m putting no less than 6 casks head-to-head. This is...

Score 89/100

Edradour 18 Year Old 1998 for 10 Years The Nectar

At the whiskyfestival Spirits in the Sky last november, Andrew Symington offered me this sample and said I simply had to try it. Great sherried nose on dark fruit, orange marmalade, chocolate, almonds, rum raisins, stewed rhubarb, maraschino cherries and pineapple on the grill. Boy, this is very, very good! If you add some water, it gets a dirty...

Score 88/100