Edradour 1997 13 Year Old Madeira Cask Finish

Edradour 1997 10 Year Old Sauternes 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 56,6%, 11 years old and received a finish from a Sauternes cask after the regular maturation in a hogshead. Only 451 bottles of 50 cl are available. Sauternes is a French dessert wine...

Score 66/100

Edradour 9 Year Old 2010 The Ultimate Cask #393

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%! This is the exact same strength as sister cask #391 that I just tried. It is only slightly lighter in color, but...

Score 87/100

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

Edradour

Edradour is a very small operation (3 guys) with a still that is barely big enough to be called legal. This whisky is very interesting. To my sniffer, the nose smelled like peanut butter and caramel. The palate was full bodied, spicy and nutty.

Score 70/100