Edradour 1999 10 Year Old Sherry Butt

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 13 YO Natural Cask Streh

This is a 13 year old cask strength bottling. The distilery and the bottle are well worth of taking a nice walk from the Pitlochry village. I highly recommend it to everybody that has a chance to do it. As the very nice old lady (I am sorry to forget her name) in the distilery put it; It is just about right to drink it, without water of course...

Score 85/100

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 1997 11 Year Old Chateau Neuf Du Pape Finish

Well I have to say I've never tried a Chateauneuf Du Pape finished whisky - whatever next? Trying neat for now.... I get toffee and plums on the nose. Caramel descending into sticky toffee pudding. Dried fruits. For 58% ABV there is surprisingly little nasal burn - normally I find it necessary to add water straight away to such high strength...

Score 88/100