Edradour Ballechin 13 Year Old Batch 1 - Cask Strength Edition

We’ve featured many whiskies from tiny distilleries that celebrate more traditional methods, but they all owe a debt to Edradour. ‘Scotland's Little Gem’ was known as the smallest Scotch distillery until 2008 (smaller ones have opened since, plus Edradour expanded in 2018), using open top mash tuns, tiny stills and traditional wormtub condensers. A surviving farm-scale distillery dating back to 1837 – though they track their history back to 1825 when a farmer involved began legal distilling – its existence through to today is a marvellous quirk of history.

In 2002 it was purchased by top independent bottler Signatory, allowing it greater opportunity to shine, and leading to greater use of sherry (and wine) casks, many more releases, and in 2006 the first peated release under the Ballechin name. This excellent cask strength edition was aged in oloroso and bourbon casks.