Edradour 1997 13 Year Old Natural Cask #187

Edradour 9 Year Old 2010 The Ultimate Cask #404

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 56.8%! This is another one of those sherry bombs on the nose, but with a twist. While the obligatory dark fruit like...

Score 86/100

Edradour 13 Year Old 1998 Natural Cask Strength

This 13 Year Old appeared in the Natural Cask Strength series, the Edradour in those wonderful decanters. It matured for 13 years on a sherrycask and was bottled at cask strength. Wonderful dark color. The nose is very grassy and sweet at the same time. Some silex, struck match and leather. Dark berries and organic chocolate. But also...

Score 86/100

Edradour 1997 11 Year Old Sassicaia Finish

Edradour markets a whole range of wine finishes, bottled in the series Straight from the Cask, meaning the whisky is single cask at cask strength. This one was finished in Sassicaia wine casks, filled in bottles of 50cl and packed in nice-looking little wooden crates. Sassicaia is considered to be a top wine from Italy in ‘Bordeaux’-style,...

Score 82/100

Edradour 8 Year Old 2008 The Ultimate Cask #118

In another era Edradour was sometimes ridiculed as Edrasour, but since Andrew Symington and his team took over, this little distillery in Pitlochry is going from strength to strength. The people of van Wees in Holland noticed this too and have released a whole range of single casks. This week I’m putting no less than 6 casks head-to-head. This is...

Score 89/100