Scotland: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Edradour

Edradour: distillery main page

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Edradour is the smallest and one of the most visited Scottish distilleries. Only 3 people work there, including Iain Henderson who became manager after the distillery has been purchased by Signatory.
Signatory wanted to own a distillery, to ensure it position on the independent bottlers market. The reason officially announced says that an independent bottler should own a distillery to ensure his stocks. If this was the only reason, one could wander why such an important in dependant bottler has chosen Edradour, the smallest distillery of the country...
Before purchasing Edradour, Andrew Symington tried to buy Glencadam, which is a much bigger distillery in terms of production.
However, I guess the reason of this operation is more the prestige of that distillery than the stock problem.
Having asked Iain Henderson to manage the distillery is certainly not insignificant neither.
Iain Henderson was retired, after having managed 14 distilleries, amongst others, Laphroaig and Bladnoch.
My meeting with this distillation wise man was one of the most magic moments of my trip in Scotland. He is a real professional distiller, and a visit of Edradour led by Iain Henderson is an unforgettable event in the life of a whisky lover.
The whole distillation processes are concentrated in a single room.
The smallest authorized stills for whisky distillation, the mash tun, the wash back and the malt mill, everything in just one tiny room... This makes a change, after having visited some very big industrial distilleries in Scotland...
The fashion of wood finishes has also reached Edradour. Port and Burgundy finishes are now available, and another new peaty version of Edradour will be marketed soon. It will however not bear the name of Edradour .



Jean-Marie Putz and Iain Henderson	Jean-Marie Putz and Iain Henderson

The distillery	The distillery

The distillery	The distillery

The distillery	The malt mill directly connected with the mash tun

The mash tun	Cooler: outside the distillery

Cooler: outside the distillery	Wort cooler

Fermenting wash in the washback	Spirit safe

Scotland's smallest stills	still

still	still

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Last update: Tuesday, 12-Aug-2008 15:54:34 CEST
Wed 20 08 2008, 05:49 - 31 visiteurs au cours de la dernière heure et 6 visiteurs sur le site en ce moment.
Copyright:Jean-Marie Putz (2003-2007)

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