Edradour 2003 Ruby Port Cask Batch 1

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 10 Signatory UCFC 2022

I've had a bit of a nasty virus recently and am only just getting my sense of taste and smell back; luckily, this is a whisky that leaps out the glass, which should help! Bottle has been open a good few months with half left. A very deep, dark red and all natural hue to it too - ex oloroso casks, two, to be precise. Review is with two drops of...

Score 84/100

Edradour 1997 11 Year Old Chateau Neuf Du Pape Finish

Edradour is known for its finishes, bottles in the series ‘Straight from the Cask’, meaning this is single cask whisky at cask strength. This one is a challenging 57,2%, 12 years old and received a maturation in a hogshead for 10 years, before being re-racked for 18 monhts in a Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine cask. Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which means ‘the...

Score 67/100

Edradour 1997 10 Year Old Sauternes Finish 50cl

Please note that I've tasted the more recent 1997 Sauternes at 11 years old. Nose: starts malty with a background of sulphury organics and hints of rubber. After some breathing, it has some glorious moments in which the sweet wine sparkles and a lot of cinnamon emerges, together with some flowers. The more time you give it, the sweeter it gets,...

Score 62/100