Review #: 281
Description: Signatory Vintage The Un-Chillfiltered Collection Edradour 10 Year
Spirit: Scotch
Background: This is a single barrel offering from Edradour, which is Signatory’s Distillery so kind of a weird OB/kind of IB release. Bottle number 656 from cask #14 it is bottled without chillfiltration (as the name suggests) and at natural color. Distilled on January 28th, 2009 and bottled on October 2nd, 2019, I’m assuming based on the color and bottle number, that it was a sherry butt it was aged in. Let’s try it though.
Distillery – Edradour
Bottler – Signatory Vintage
Brand – Signatory Vintage
Selection – N/A
ABV – 46%
Age – 10 Years
Nose – Very bready and nice roasted malt, dark and earthy fruit, red grapes, apricots, plums, balanced with some bright strawberry and cherry, some dark chocolate and pipe tobacco comes in too.
Taste – Plums, dates, dark caramel. None of the brightness from the nose really comes through. Bran flakes, coffee bean. Kind of thin and light
Finish – Really takes a turn here: malt gets pretty bitter, burnt toast, sulfur comes in too with some vegetal-ness and just not a very pleasant experience.
Score: 4
Would I buy a bottle? No
Thoughts: Man, the nose on this was so great and enticing. Something new with every sniff. But the palate showed it was watered down to 46%, and as the color suggests, the sherry just beat the crap out of the distillate. The finish turns bitter and vegetal and the sulfur is too much. It really wants to be a great value, but it’s hard to want to turn back to it.