Edradour 10 Year Old

When I saw some videos of the Edradour distillery, I fell in love with this little farm and I just hád to have one of their bottles. In the shop there were 3 cans of the 10, 2 of them grey, more modern looking and 1 older yellow-ish version. On the back on the yellow it says NATURAL COLOUR but that was not on the other 2... I took the yellow one obviously for €36,70.

Appearance: pretty dark for a ten year old, thick and slow oily legs, promising!

Nose: This is some lovely nose! Grandmothers custard cake in a field of flowers, sweet barley, hay, almonds and sherried wood. With water (3 little drops)the aroma gets a little wider, more flowers, bigger sherry, ripe red fruit and a tiny bit of peat and smoke appear. One of the nicest noses I had so far, because its not so strong, you can really hang your snout in there and breathe deep:) And when you do, you dont want to get out!

Arrival is quite strange to me, flowers and spice, almost like a good rye whiskey:p With water the initial strangeness softens and after 5-10 seconds it falls into place. Very nutty flavors, cashew, dry vanilla, oily oak and sweet multigrain bread at the same time. Comes in pretty big for its 40% It developes with cream, butter, more oak, some yelleow fruity notes and a bit of smoke.

It finishes with dry fresh wood, more cream sherried cherries and roasted nuts. After the initial entry warmth the strength quickly fades, but the flavors stay in your mouth for a while and ends with bread and butter. The finish resembles the nose more than the taste I think.

a Bit of an odball, but a very good, practically handmade whisky and it makes me want to try their cask strength products.

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