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Signatory Edradour 10 Year Sherry 46%

Signatory Edradour 10 Year Sherry 46%

$139.99

As always this sherry bomb is bottled at 46% ABV with natural colour and un-chill-filtered from a single first fill sherry butt.

A customer tip lead us to this whisky, we've seen a few batches of these very sherried single malt. Always from a single ex-Sherry Butt, bottled at 46% after 10 years, under the Signatory label. Exclusive to KWM in Calgary. The current release, Cask 284, was distilled on June 2012, and bottled on November 2022.

 

700 ml
Region:Scotland > Highland
Vintage:2012
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Andrew's Tasting Note - Cask 2012 #284

Nose: black licorice pipes, Black Forrest cake, stewed prunes, and teriyaki beef jerky; maple syrup on blueberry-heavy pancakes with a side of cheqy bacon.

Palate: big, round, rich and very sherried; loaded with raisins, dates, figs and stewed prunes; more blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and Black Forrest cake; leather, tobacco and spices with time; more licorice, but of the salty Dutch sort.

Finish: Long, warming and spicy with loads of dark fruit, chocolate, leather, and tobacco.

Comments: new-school and a tad dumpy, but otherwise flawless sherry; if you are after a well priced sherry bomb, this is your dram!

Andrew's Tasting Note - 2011 Sherry Butt #386

Nose: deep with loads of sweet dark fruit, chocolate, leather and tobacco; fig & strawberry jams, date squares and Fig Newtons; Fruit & Nut Bar; maple syrup and treacle sauce.

Palate: round, fruity and very chocolatey; the delivery is very soft; flat cola, cooked raisins, grilled dates and more Fig Newtons; slightly gamey medium-dark goat's milk chocolate (yup that's a thing); creme caramel and Aussie licorice.

Finish: Caramilk, Strawberry Twizzlers, fig jam, and Aussie licorice; medium short in length, but very pleasant.

Comment: this is not the most complex batch of this I've had, but it is one of the most drinkable; flawless sherry; dangerously drinkable!

 

Andrew's Tasting Note - 2011 Sherry Butt #187

Nose: nutty, chocolatey and earthy; stewed fruits, teriyaki beef jerky, and grilled figs stuffed with blue cheese; candied nuts, demerara sugar, and bacon dipped in chocolate; Arnold Palmers and sugary Russian coffee dregs.

Palate: big, rich and nutty; this is a dry-oloroso malt with notes of nocino and chinotto; rough old leather, tobacco, and a minty freshness; more beef jerky, grilled figs with blue cheese, and chocolate-dipped in bacon; Russian coffee, Dutch licorice, chocolate-coated gummy bears, and milk duds.

Finish: medium long and rich; big earthy sherry tones, spices, and dark bakers chocolate.

Comment: this is one of the darkest (flavourwise), earthy and chocolaty of these Edradours we've ever seen; I'm glad I revisited my initial tasting note the next day because a little O2 in the bottle did it some wonders; I happily polish a bottle of this in a night with some friends!

Andrew's Tasting Note - 2009 Sherry Butt #394 - December 2009 - January 2020

Nose: candied fruit as and nuts; treacle sauce and sticky toffee pudding; Fruit by the Foot, Twizzlers Cherry Nibbs and Starburst Fruit Candies; fruity chocolate and tobacco with smooth new leather.

Palate: big, round, rich, sherried, honeyed, toasty and very creamy; decadent spices and musty old oak from a dunnage warehouse; very candied and fruity: maraschino cherries,cherry Nibbs, candied orange and Starburst Fruit Candies; more sticky toffee pudding with treacle sauce; barrel aged maple syrup, honey and clotted cream; chocolate coated almonds and espresso beans; late dark dried fruits and all the while a base of juicy malt.

Finish: long, fresh, fruity and sherried; more honey, dark fruits, spices and fruit candies.

Comment: this is exactly what you want from a big young sherry bomb; rich, fruity, spicy and smooth; there is some juicy young malt underneath, but it has a maturity beyond its years; no trace of the dreaded  "S" word.

Andrew's Tasting Note - 2009 Sherry Butt #58 - March 2009 - September 2019

Nose: beef bullion cubes, teriyaki beef  jerky and dark bakers chocolate; walnut liqueur, loose leaf tobacco and old saddle leather; Russian coffee dregs, Dutch licorice and Tootsie Rolls.

Palate: a mouthful of loose leaf tobacco, rough old leather, beef bullion and dark bakers chocolate; loaded with dark sugars; brown, demerara and cane; more Dutch licorice, Russian coffee dregs and salted caramel; dried dark fruits: cooked raisins, grilled dates and figs; very nutty, sherried, round, rough and earthy.

Finish: long, coating and rich; more dark sugars, fruits, leather, tobacco and chocolate.

Comment: this is almost over the top; no sulphur but this is close to being overcooked; looking for an almost over the top sherried drams that is not flawed... this is it! 

Originally written by Evan for blog posts related to KWM's 2020 Whisky Calendar.

Edradour distillery is located in Perthshire and is one of the more picturesque distilleries around – not just because of the buildings and their history and the whisky they make, but also due to the landscape it all resides on. The Edradour Burn is a stream/river that flows through the distillery property, which itself resides on a gently sloping hill. This view is especially impressive in the morning, with the fog not yet having dissipated entirely.

When you take in the entire scene, it is incredibly picturesque, on par for me view-wise with visiting Maker’s Mark Distillery in Kentucky. One big difference between the two though, is that Maker’s Mark goes through pains to show you how authentic and quaint and different from the rest it is. This is nice, but it is kind of like a person bragging about how humble they are. It is fun if they get the irony of it all and are intentionally saying it as a joke, but not if they are being earnest to the point of hypocrisy.

The picturesque Edradour Distillery - with another group starting on the tour to eventually become evangelized like the rest.

Edradour doesn’t seem to brag or boast much. It just is what it is: a small distillery (well, technically two distilleries now I suppose..) owned by Signatory, which itself a small(ish) independent bottler. Both are located in the beautiful scenery of Perthshire in the Highlands. That is what makes nearly every visitor become an ambassador for the brand.

Edradour Distillery produces both unpeated and peated malt. Edradour 10 Year Old, which is arguably the flagship bottle for Edradour, is unpeated in style. When the distillery runs a peated batch, they call the resulting spirit Ballechin. It was given this name by Edradour’s owner Andrew Symington chose for its heavily peated runs of spirit. The Ballechin name was previously used for another distillery that used to reside nearby Edradour, though it closed down for the last time in 1927.

For Ballechin, Edradour Distillery uses malted barley peated to about 50PPM. The first runs of this heavily peated style happened back in 2003, and after a series of limited runs with the Ballechin name attached, the Ballechin 10 Year Old was officially introduced as a regular bottling in 2014.

Another interesting tidbit that I just hinted at in my post for the Edradour 10: The Edradour distillery currently has TWO stillhouses on site. Both are operational as well. The new stillhouse, which is classified as Edradour no2 when the spirit is put into cask, is in a building that also doubles as a warehouse.

Signatory Vintage was established in 1988 by Andrew Symington. The quality of whiskies released by most Independent Bottlers can vary a lot, and be rather hit or miss. Signatory Vintage is an exception to this, and we have consistently been impressed by the quality of its offerings. Accordingly Signatory Vintage has been a staple in our shop for more than a decade.

One of the reasons for Signatory's consistently high level of quality is that it doesn't bottle casks in the hand-to-mouth fashion, of many other independent bottlers. But rather it purchases parcels of casks, storing them in their own warehouses, while patiently waiting for the whiskies to mature.

Originally located in Edinburgh, the business was moved to Pitlochry in 2002, after Symington purchased the Edradour Distillery from Pernod Ricard. Edradour is tucked into the hills above the scenic Highland town of Pitlochry. This farm distillery has a charming, rustic, and understated esthetic, which was maintained by Symington when building a new bottling facility and warehousing.

The distillery bottles single cask and small batch bottlings of both single malts and single grains. Its ranges include the Un-Chill Filtered and Cask Strength Collections. In 1988 the firm celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a range of specially chosen, exceptionally rare single casks.

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