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1257 Kensington Road NW
1 (403) 283-8000 / atyourservice@kensingtonwinemarket.com
$131.99
This 10 Year Old is the flagship bottle of Edradour Distillery's heavily peated Ballechin line. It is bottled at 46% ABV, non-chill-filtered and with no colouring added. Ballechin is peated to a level of 50 PPM, and the 10-year-old is a combination of mostly ex-Bourbon casks with some ex-Oloroso Sherry casks put in the mix just for fun.
700ml ml Low StockEvan's Tasting Note
Nose: Smoky salami, well-weathered railroad ties, cracked black pepper, earl grey tea, smoked applewood cheddar, a touch of menthol, blackberry jam, banana peel, roasted cashews, burning marshmallows on a campfire, and dark coffee grounds.
Palate: Earthy again but with some nice sweet notes. Roasted malt, milk chocolate, huckleberry pie with a slightly burnt crust and vanilla ice cream on top, earl grey tea but with milk this time, and Oreo Cookies to dunk.
Finish: Chewy and creamy with some earthy smoke sticking around for a long time afterwards.
Comment: Lovely stuff. Rich and deep with a lot of complexity coming from the peat itself, This is big, dense and earthy. If that doesn't make you shy away, it is time you tried this Single Malt out.
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.
$359.99
Is this the oldest Ballechin ever bottled? Distilled in 2004, this peated Edradour was matured in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels and then bottled at 52.8%.
88.61 points Whiskybase
$284.99
The second batch of Ballechin (peated Edradour) Cask Strength 18 Year has been bottled at 57.8% after maturing in ex-Bourbon & sherry casks.
$101.99
This is the new Edradour 10 Year, bottled at 43% now, up from 40%. 100% matured in Oloroso sherry casks, it is bottled without chill-filtering.
Producer Description
"The ten year old Edradour is handmade and one of the last Single Malt Whiskies from a traditional farm distillery still in production today. The methods of production remain virtually unchanged in the last 150 years and are only just capable of commercial quantities. Indeed Edradour Distillery makes as much whisky in a year as most distilleries produce in a week. A rare pleasure for a fortunate few."
$109.99
Part of the reimagined BenRiach lineup spearheaded by Master Blended Rachel Barrie, The Smoky Ten is one of the peated BenRiach's in the range. A curious and intriguing combination of three casks are used in the maturation of the Smoky Ten: ex-Bourbon, Jamaican Rum casks, and toasted virgin oak casks. 46%
Producer Description
"In the early 1970s, Benriach broke convention in Speyside by returning to distilling batches of whisky in the old, 19th century style, using malted barley smoked with Highland peat. This wood rich Highland peat imparts distinctly sweet and smoky notes into Benriach peated whiskies. Benriach The Smoky Ten has been crafted from a combination of unpeated and peated spirit and three cask matured for at least ten years in a combination of bourbon barrels, Jamaican rum casks and toasted virgin oak. The whisky is then expertly married together to create sublimely smooth layers of sunripe fruit, aromatic smoke and toasted oak spice, lingering into the perfectly balanced sweet and smoky finish."
