2004 Edradour Ballechin Straight from the Cask 13 Year Old Port Cask #205 Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (500ml)

Distilled in April 2004, Cask# 215 was used to mature Port before being filled. The resulting whisky mingles port "fruits", smoked bacon flavours, sweet berries, gun smoke, chocolate, pecans and hints of nutmeg. From an outturn of 408 bottles at 54.2% Alc./Vol. Non chill filtered.

“Ballechin” is the heavily peated version of Edradour and comes matured in a wide variety of wood types. The name originates from a fellow Perthshire farm distillery, which sadly closed its doors in 1927. Alfred Barnard, who catalogued all the distilleries in the UK in the 1880’s, made reference to having tasted a peated dram there. The new-age Ballechin is a whisky born out of experimentation but has attained a quasi-cult status in a relatively short time. When Edradour was bought in 2002, Andrew Symington called on the services of Iain Henderson, the former director of Laphroaig to create a second, very peaty malt. Available since 2006 and employing barley peated at a whopping 50ppm - a rate comparable to the smokiest malts of Islay - "Ballechin" was initially sold as a yearly vintage in limited runs of 6000 bottles. There’s now a broader variety available, including private and exclusive bottlings, however the cask strength editions are the most sought after. They remain small-scale single cask releases available in Australia sporadically throughout the year.