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BALLECHIN 10 YO HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY 0,7

Name: BALLECHIN 10 YO HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY 0,7
SKU: 024396
Price: 249.00 PLN
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Alcohol percentage: 40%

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Ballechin 10 YO is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky from the Edradour distillery in Pitlochry, distinguished by its intense peat. Ballechin is a heavily peated whisky that has been produced at Edradour since 2003, distilled from barley peated to a level of no less than 50 ppm. The name is a tribute to a former distillery. The Ballechin name comes from another Perthshire farm distillery, which closed its doors in 1927, and Alfred Barnard, who catalogued every distillery in Great Britain in the 1880s, mentioned peated whisky being made there.

Edradour has a long farming history in central Perthshire. It is another of the numerous farm distilleries of central Perthshire – Edradour began production at its present location in 1837, although one of the farmers in the original consortium, Duncan Forbes, had been distilling legally nearby as early as 1825. In 2002 Pernod Ricard deemed the distillery surplus to requirements and sold it to independent bottler Signatory Vintage. It was a perfect match. Since then Signatory has built extensive warehousing for its own casks, a bottling line, a tasting room, and expanded production to include the heavily peated Ballechin variant. The distillery has retained the traditional character of its equipment. It works with a single pair of small pot stills fitted with worm tub condensers, being of the minimum size legally permitted for a commercial Scotch distillery.

This ten-year-old expression combines two cask types. This bottling comes mainly from bourbon casks, with a generous addition of Oloroso Sherry casks, intended to add depth and greater complexity. The barley is heavily peated to 50 ppm, which in theory places it, in terms of phenol content, somewhere between Laphroaig and Ardbeg. It is worth bearing in mind a certain nuance to this figure. Phenols are lost both during distillation and during maturation, so it is more of an indication than a rigid measure.

On the aromatic profile, peat meets fruit and toasted wood. Oily malt, a waft of charred ends and barbecue coals, a few accents of apple and fig. Chewy dates and oak, with smouldering peat bringing a spicy warmth to the palate. A trace of ash lingers on the finish. The brand describes its own profile succinctly. A herbal, grassy nose with sweetened smoke, a palate of chocolatey oak over spicy, earthy smokiness, and a finish of smouldering, singed heather.

In the distillery's official version, the whisky is bottled at 46% strength. Bottled at 46% ABV without chill filtration, it retains the true character of the cask. This batch is offered at 40% strength. Ballechin is sometimes described as an expressive alternative to Islay whisky. This is far from the smoothed-out and homogenised peated whisky of Islay – there is genuine character here, which at the same time seems fundamentally different from other peated alternatives such as Ardmore or Ledaig.