Edradour 2008 11 Year Old Sherry Cask TWE Exclusive

BIlly Abbott, The Whisky Exchange

• Nose

  Sticky dark fruit cake, studded with glacé and maraschino cherries, and fed for months with dark rum. Rich molasses and brown sugar notes build, with a buttery background, more than a spoonful of mixed spice and core of sweet banana bread.

• Palate

  Lighter than expected, with icing sugar sweetness diving quickly into a bucket of raisins. The glacé cherries are back, along with the fruit cake, but there’s now a layer of apple and caramel sauce sticking it all together. A touch of bitter char sits at the back.

• Finish

  Warming spice slowly grows accompanied by dates, raisins and dried figs. Polished oak hides underneath.