Ballechin Burgundy Matured

Ballechin Marsala Cask Matured

Ballechin #5 The Marsala Casks is the official name. Very rugged single malt whisky with attitude! Rough but pleasant, had a Silver Medal by Malt Maniacs. Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch comes to mind immediately. Well, any film that is good and violent. That's how rough this Ballechin is. Nice dram, I dare you to try. If you can find it. Not a...

Score 88/100

Ballechin #6 Bourbon Cask Matured

Ballechin in the peated expression of Edradour, a Highland distillery that was built in 1825. It proudly advertises itself as Scotland's smallest distillery, producing only 6000 gallons of spirit a year. It was bought by Pernod Ricard in 1975 but was overshadowed by its larger stablemates, and was then sold in 2002 to Signatory owner Andrew...

Score 91/100

Ballechin 2004 Manzanilla Cask Sample

This is another work in progress that was served by Andrew at a festival in Belgium in November 2013. It is not yet on the market, but might be the new standard 10 Year Old Ballechin to be released in 2014. I cannot be sure though. It was, however, a unique opportunity to try a Ballechin (peaty Edradour) at cask strength as all releases have so...

Score 90/100

Ballechin 10yo

After 8 inaugural batches, Ballechin, the heavily peated highlander born at the small Perthshire based Edradour distillery comes of age. With its first regular release in the summer of 2014, Edradour means business and it wants to carve out a section of the ultra-peated niche market for itself. Description: burnished gold in colour, thick legs in...

Score 84/100