2015 Edradour 200th Anniversary 10 Year Old PX Sherry Cask Small Batch Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

"This whisky, with its style that I actively avoided for the longest time, has won me over completely. " - dramface.com

From colour to taste, this extreme release will likely be too intense for those who appreciate the distillery’s purest forms (Edradour's bourbon cask bottlings would be the better showcase). That leaves all the more for the sherry heads - and there are plenty of us. Andrew Symington's signature flourish places impact before elegance in a whisky matured entirely in first-fill Pedro Ximénez (sweet) sherry butts to mark the distillery's bicentennial. Offering a decadent profile of dried fruits, dark chocolate and toffee at a price that's completely accessible, it will be your fireside companion this winter, a dessert whisky par excellence, or a preferred dram for whenever you feel like spoiling yourself. This style isn't for everyone, but it is a rallying call to fans of sherried malts longing for the bargains of yesteryear. We have one parcel only, just landed at direct-from-the-distillery pricing. 46% Alc./Vol. Non chill filtered and natural in colour.

Other reviews... Very sweet wave of PX sherry. Jammy again! Home-made cherry and forest fruit jam. It’s blackcurrants, strawberry, stewed prunes, and raisins galore. The kind of chocolate bonbons with alcoholic cherry creaminess inside. There are baking spices here, but they take a while to break through the fruit salad barricade. There’s that suggestion of Appassimento wine again. The finish is slightly drying. High cocoa content chocolate acerbity. It takes water well, and after a while that softens the experience a bit. Dilute to your own preference; it’ll play along nicely. This is a very well executed whisky. It turns out that if the casks are good and the distillate is robust and hefty enough to stand up to them instead of getting devoured by them, PX casks might be my thing after all. And this isn’t even a gentle finish; it’s full maturation for 10 years. I’m sure you can tell by now that I like it. This whisky, with its style that I actively avoided for the longest time, has won me over completely. It’s going down quicker than most bottles at the moment, and that tells me all I need to know. - dramface.com

...Not the typical Edra. Sweet, but not the over spice, nutty, dry finish that we dread. What a wonderful OB. Drinks like a well rested 22 y.o., but is too busy and diverse to notice. I wish that this revolutionary bottle could be a trend for the distillery. Definitely a best buy bottle.  - whiskybase.com