Edradour 16 Year Old 2000 - Barolo Cask Finish (70cl, 56.7%) ***sold***
A wine cask finished whisky from the small Pitlochry distillery. The youngest spirit in the bottle was distilled on 28th November 2000 and laid to rest in casks #807, #810 and #811. The liquid was then moved to Barolo Hogsheads for 42 months before being bottled on 9th February 2017 at the age of 16 years old.
One of 894 bottles.
For a long time Edradour was Scotland's smallest distillery. Owned by William Whitely for much of the 20th century, it contributed malt for their King's Ransom blend, which had developed a strong sales network in the US with dubious Mafia boss, Frank Costello, as its representative. The distillery was eventually sold to Campbell Distillers in 1982, who opened it up to visitors and bottled its first official single malt in 1986. Despite its small size, the distillery has always found itself interested parties, with independent bottlers-turned-distillers, Signatory Vintage, purchasing it in 2002 when it was deemed surplus to requirements by Campbell Distillers parent firm, Pernod-Ricard.