Edradour 10 yo

"Beux" regaled us in message news:bl8vri$g8q$ snipped-for-privacy@news-reader1.wanadoo.fr with

Interesting, I tasted my Edradour 10yo last night just so I could reply (hi, I'm new here btw) and it was labeled 43% alcohol by volume. But anyway...

The deep color was my immediate first impression, it's possibly the darkest whisky in my collection. The aroma was dominated by peat, but subtle hints of caramel came through as well. I would call the body medium, with a mouth feel that's not too heavy nor too light. The foreground flavor is a very aggressive peat taste that may be among the most aggressive flavor of any whisky I've tasted, but the finish was a complete surprise by being quite light and smooth with the aftertaste reminding me of peaches and caramel.

For me this one's worth it for the aftertaste alone, I was quite surprised. Be sure not to hurry your tasting and take time to savor between sips of this whisky.

Rob

Welcome to the group Rob!

Johanna

Welcome to the group, Rob, and thank you for posting your impression of the Edradour 10yo.

I enjoy reading tasting notes when folks are brave enough to post them - not that one has to be especially brave; this is usually a rather civil group and you can consider yourself among friends. It's interesting to hear when others experience a malt in the same way that I do - and maybe even more interesting to hear when they experience it differently.

What did the bottle / label look like on the 10yo. you sampled?

Bart

Hi Beux,

It's been a while since I've tasted an Edradour, so I don't have a clear fresh memory of it's character, but I remember liking it very much. That would have been the distillery's "water-color" labeled bottle. It had a lot of rich powerful flavors which is always a plus with me.

Edradour has unusually small stills, the smallest in the industry I believe, and that may add to the richness of the malt. Edradour has traditionally had small annual production. I've read (in Michael Jackson? the Malt Advocate?...) that Edradour produces in a year what some large distilleries can produce in a month - but I can't remember the source for that statement.

Edradour is now owned by the folks behind Signatory. They haven't had as much publicity as Murray McDavid's Bruichladdich, but I expect to see some very interesting whisky from Edradour in the future.

Bart

Bart :

Thank you Bart for these informations ! I want to offer this Single Malt to a friend who loves fruity whisky and Highlands. Moreover, the bottle (old design) is beautiful.

Thanks for the welcome, Bart. Do I infer from your comment that my notes were in accord with your recollections?

And my bottle looks like this:

There's not a lot missing from that bottle, because the first taste I had, I reacted rather negatively to the dry aggressive taste without paying enough attention to the finish. So I didn't return to this bottle until Beux made inquiry and I thought it was a good way to move from lurker to poster here.

My copy of _Single-Malt Whiskies of Scotland_ notes that Edradour's annual production is 50,000 gallons, and that they've had but one wash still and one spirit still since their 1825 founding. _Single Malt & Scotch Whisky_ says that it's a four-person operation. I'll raise a glass to the four of them.

Rob

Uzytkownik "Bart" napisal w wiadomosci news: snipped-for-privacy@texas.net...

While travelling across Scotland some time ago, I visited Edradour on two occasions. The distillery definitely is the smallest one in Scotland (although there were plans for a new, even smaller one on Islay, I believe, to be named Kilchoman), has only two stills - a wash still and a spirit still - and apparently they are just above the legal limit for the smallest allowable vessel for whisky distillation. Apparently the law of 1823, which practically legalised whisky distillation, did not allow stills small enough to be hidden should excise men appear within sight of a distillery. Anyway, Edradour is operated (or was at the time of my both visits) by only three men, all stages of production performed manually, and is the sweetest thing to see - like a minature of a distillery, with its whitewashed mini-buildings. I actually had to bend in most doorways! Ah, there are more people employed in the Visitor Centre and shop, but they have nothing to do with whisky production. Have a look at at two pictures of Edradour I took while there at

Cheers, Rajmund

Rajmund M. Have a look at at two pictures of Edradour I took

Very nice pictures ! Nice shot