Edradour 10 Year Old Equilibrium Ballechin 2003 Blend Cask Strength (Whisky Sponge Decadent Drinks) 70cl

Edradour 10 Year Old Equilibrium Ballechin 2003 Blend Cask Strength (Whisky Sponge Decadent Drinks) 70cl

Equilibrium 10 Years is a single malt, but a mix of two styles: Edradour 2010 from a first fill sherry butt + Ballechin 2003 from a refill hogshead. So we have unpeated and peated spirit from the same distillery, with different levels of sherry influence.

It was bottled by Decadent Drinks in their WhiskySponge series, after being selected from the warehouses of Signatory Vintage, which is also the owner of Edradour since 2002.

FROM DECADENT DRINKS

You all crave sherry and peat. Don't pretend otherwise!

Out of this craving we have conceived Equilibrium: a theoretical balance of sherry and peat flavour profiles achieved via haphazard vatting and mixing of casks.

For this first release we sloshed together a first fill sherry butt of Edradour 2010 and a refill hogshead of Ballechin 2003 and then bottled the resulting goo at 52%.

Equilibrium is slightly experimental and absolutely NOT innovative. But, is it balanced? Is it harmonious? Have we achieved so called 'equilibrium'? Or is it just a huge steaming morass of marketing hyper-bollocks? Is it, in fact, any good at all? Only you can be the judge of this. We look forward to, and are genuinely interested in, your feedback.

Of course, that would mean you would have to buy one and then actually open it and ingest some of the fluid contained within. Now that's innovation baby!

TASTING NOTES

Nose: big hints of cured meats and Cuban cigars, with menthol and hints of pu-erh tea. Tarry ropes. Dried cranberries, burnt raisins and hints of cherry jam in the background. Some herbal / floral notes and graphite as well. It’s smoky but so far the peat is not putting its foot down.

Mouth: now more tarry, with a peppery arrival developing into medicinal notes and slightly bitter herbs. Barbecued bacon. Salty liquorice, dark coffee, walnuts. Mid-palate I get a fruity sourness (cranberries again, maybe dark plums) but it struggles to get out. Then back to cough syrup, eucalyptus and burnt wood. Nothing dirty here, but not exactly easy drinking either.

Finish: long, earthy and peppery, with some syrupy forest fruits and herbal tea. Dry walnut notes in the end.

52% ABV

70cl

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