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Edradour 1973-2003 - 30 Year Old - Single Cask 97
Edradour 1973 - 2003. 30 Year Old. Cask number 97. One of 539 bottles from a Sherry Cask. 70cl. 53.4%.
This 30 Years old single malt whisky from Edradour Distillery is unique. Never before has there been an official bottling of this age at the time of bottling. After acquiring Edradour on the 23rd July 2002, Owner Andrew Symington had access to the distillery production records from 1970 onwards. It was apparent that Edradour was seldom sold to the industry on a new filling basis. However, an entry from March 1973 caught his eye.
A telephone call to Allied Distillers revealed that there were indeed 3 casks which were destined for a 30 Years Old Blend. Iain was fortunate enough to be able to rescue these casks with the help of Mr Jim Barr, Head of Commercial Bulk Trading for Allied Distillers Ltd, and to be able to bottle the first ever official 30 Years Old Edradour.
Edradour in the picturesque Highland town of Pitlochry is one of Scotland’s smallest and most charming whisky distilleries. Founded in 1825, the distillery was taken over in 1982 by Pernod Ricard, who sold Edradour to Andrew Symington’s Signatory Vintage in 2002. Symington wanted his own distillery to offset supply risks and give his company a source of new make spirit to trade with other distilleries.
Edradour distillery was truly tiny in 2002, with a production capacity of less than 100,000 litres per annum, but the success of the Symington era enabled expansion, with a second distillery opening onsite in 2018 and an increased capacity of around 250,000 litres per annum. Aside from the official 10-year-old and a new peated Edradour whisky named Ballechin, Symington has bottled hundreds of Edradour single cask whiskies from his inventory, the majority finished in different wine casks.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.