3:18 -- for a second there I thought Geoff would just go on listing different types of jam for like 5 minutes. :))) I'd watch that!

This one is right up my street - Edradour is my favourite distillery! Shame it wasn't a standard bottle size though. Great to hear your thoughts Geoff. Cheers.

Your reviews never fail to crack me up apart from being absolutely honest and objective 👍

Great review as always, straight forward, real and when you least expect it, looking very formal and serious the touch of humor from Geoff that makes you to rewind the video to laugh again, thank you Geoff, and I know that I would never see that bottle here in Arkansas but I don't feel bad about it because I will do the recipe to put in the blender so I can have my own bottle. Lol 😂 cheers 🥃👍💯😎

I want a case... So jealous..

Excellent review Geoff. I've had a couple of the cask strength bottlings, back in the day when they were about £70 GBP - but they're now around £105.00 so I've switched to the Caledonia, which is also lovely stuff. Your review has put temptation in my way again! 😂 Slainte!

The Edradour Sauternes cask is fantastic! Intense flavor, full mouth feel, fig and holiday spice nose. It’s one of my favorites

Good channel. Thanks.

The straight from the cask series has always been interesting to say the least. They are typically flavor bombs with heavy hitting, no nonsense whiskies. Like you, I like this one. Whenever I want a rebellious sherry matured whisky, I turn to Edradour. They never disappoint. My favorite cask strength expressions from them would be the 2009, 12 year sherry cask, the 2007, 13 year bourbon cask and the 1999 Barolo finish, I think that is a 22 year whisky. Also, did you just divulge the secret of making Edradour whiskies?!? They be coming for you Geoff!

Nice review. Would like to try this one in the future.

Got a 12y cask strength from my gf for christmas. its very oily, full bodied, sweet jam dates but also the typical edradour tobacco leather, notes. What suprised me, even tho the casks are so active, it has a very nice malty, cereal note. Amazing stuff. But Edradour is also my fav distillery, always enjoying their dirty whiskies.

Glad you have reviewed this one Geoff, I have an unopened bottle of a March 2019 bottling at 58.3%. You have pretty much described how I imagine it to taste. I would definitely put Edradour in my top 5 distilleries. Have you tasted much from Loch Lomond, another underrated distillery IMO. Cheers 🍻

Here here Geoff, totally agree half litre bottles are used to no one, look at Aberlour 18,smaller bottle and the price went up!!! Excellent review, as always 😀💪, slàinte Geoff

Well I picked up both a 2012 straight from the cask and 2012 bourbon ibisco as well. Excited to try the straight from the cask and see how different this year’s bourbon natural cask is from the other two bottles I own

Recently have Ballechin SFTC 10 years 2010, also 500ml bottle but with weird blue wood box. Had a pretty good impression...sherry bomb, complex and rich, peated not so much.

Edradour is a distillery that has always interested me. I've tasted a few and it's been hit and miss. I love sherry and I love peat. But I have not tasted a Ballechin that quite hits the spot with me. Their sherried stuff though gives me that "dirty" and "funky" flavour I really like that is sometimes missing from other sherried whiskies. I have recently moved from South Africa to Europe and left a large stash of whisky behind in storage and am slowly building a new collection here. I definitely want to add an Edradour to the mix here and am torn between this SFTC edition, the Signatory release or another Independent Bottler's called the Ultimate (all easily available here). Their standard 10 year old at 40% is nice but I can't bring myself to spend hard earned money on 40% ABV whiskies. This review may have just pushed me over the edge to go for the Signatory or Ultimate bottling. Thanks for the great review.

Good job . Edradour is good whiski , i liked ) Geoff cheers : )

the look is fine, but th size is small...thats what she said! lol thanks for your review! great job like always :)

I agree with the @4:13 where you visually express that you wished the bottle was larger. Here in Canada it's around $165 so you can do the math for a 750ml. The price has stopped me so far but I am curious that you say it's almost over sherried. Although it might not be as well balanced, I wouldn't mind having something on the extreme side in the collection.

Some 20y ago, circa 2002-2004, Ontario had these for 85$CAD (500 mL) : it was too much at the time, since a Macallan 10 CS (750 mL) was 55$CAD. Back then, these CS sherry monsters above 55% , were all equally dark - thick (oily) - and saccharin sweet to Nth degree ! ( i still have a case of each, circa 1994-1995 vintage) ! . . . I add 1 ounce of these to 3 ounces of the mundane 43-46% abv of todays monsters to add zest, floral notes and punch on the nose. Sorry, never water to my Scotches, only a dab of younger malt from same distillery. Great review.

I got the new 2022 bottling with the tube packaging. It was very bitter, tannins, obviously a bunch of dark red fruits but very white wine flavor and vinegary 7.9 for now… I had it after tasting an AWFUL IB Cooper’s royal brackla finished in Madeira that was super salty,vinegary and bitter so I’ll have to try it again in a few days.

I would agree, value is tricky. It is good whisky, but priced high and the "concentrate" is not for everyone. Cheers!

I have some 10-15 different Edradour including the one you are reviewing. In my opinion, the Signatory bottlings are usually better and more value for the money. Having that said, S.F.T.C. are good. Have you tried Bourbon matured Edradour? Pretty good!

i think that edradour now offers both a wood box and a tube (for 10 euros less) with the same release, but i could be wrong

Heavy stuff😂😂. I've tried 3 diferent ones through the years I've been drinking singel malt and I really love them.....but they need water.. quite a lot in my taste. I totaly agree that It's a pitty with the small bottles

Have not had one of these but the Natural Cask Strength 12yr single cask series that you showed at the beginning of the video is Amazing. My Whisky of the year in 2019. Think these are similar ? Edradour has a agricultural to the point of livestock funk for me. Cheers

I might try the heavily peated Edradour Ballechin 10 Year Old Scotch for $80.

I recently picked up the Edradour 10 Signatory release and I’ve got an Edradour 12 CS Sherry in the nice decanter on the way. I won’t share how much I paid for it. = )

The 2010 vintage of SFTC Sherry Cask goes for ~66-67 euros in Bulgaria. Dollar for dollar the price is the same as the price of the 0.7 l. , 12 yo Ibisco decanter release. So far I've been holding back on this one because I have the IBISCO bottle, the Signatory 10 yo 46%, Caledonia 12 yo and Fairy Flag 15 yo. I have also tasted the bourbon matured 10 yo Ibisco release. So, albeit SFTC is apparently very well done, I doubt will will be something unheard of. Plus, I absolutely hate the pathetic, low-cost timber box which looks like some home-made bird house :) Not that the tubes that Ibisco Edradours come in are particularly classy, but this box is outright junk for me :) Cheers!

Was really excited about this video as soon as I saw that thumbnail, as I just recently put this Whiskey in my digital cart in some web shop. But didn't bought it yet. Actually thinking to buy this one for quite a while now. Can someone help me, with how it's taste profile relates to the Signatory Vintage - Edradour 10 46% dark releases? Example: (Edradour 10yo Signatory 2010/20 [L20 Cask 52, Bottle 75] 46%) about 60€ here / Straight from the Barrel about 90€ Tried and got some of those as they are a great value, for me, with most of those, the last edge of taste, making it really interesting is missing for me though. Would be happy for any feedback on this! (I'm not afraid of really bold flavours in general, but maybe that's the problem with the Signatorys aswell, the Sherry kinda over-killing it.) Cheers!

Hi Geoff. By shear coincidence, I was drinking the Signatory bottling of this, as your feed came to me. When it comes to my market, I’d like to say to Edradour, “why can’t you produce an integrity bottling of your own scotch in a proper sized bottle. Why have you left it to an independent bottler to show us what a great spirit this is.

Having tried the Caledonia, I’m thinking the Ballechin SFTC might be the next one to try rather than this Sherry thermonuclear device.

I thought the Caledonia is unique enough, but now this one sounds even more characteristic!

Is there anything unique about the straight from the cask range compared to the Ibisco cask strength releases or is it purely a branding thing?

Have you ever reduced balsamic vinegar down to a syrup? It makes for a very intense experience. I love the results of reduction in stocks. So, this would be a whisky for me. Cheers.

Unfortunately, hard to get by any Edradour bottle from where I live. How does it compare to Glenallachie 10?

You make it sound really good. But the 500 ml is putting me off. I have had some Ballechin in the past SFTC, and they are good. But I like my bottle a little bigger. Might pick one up if the price is right.

So, firstly, well done, Good Ser…and, I’m most (respectfully) proud of you, and I’m sure you know why. That said, let’s get the one nitpick out of the way quickly, as their peated elixir is actually pronounced, “BA-LECK-KIN”, not, “BAL-A-KIN”… 🤷🏻‍♂️😁 And, to answer your indirect query about how they get their SFTC, IBISCO, and UCF SIGNATORY whiskies so unbelievably unctuous, they use 12 YO SPANISH OAK Hogsheads and Butts from Jose Y Miguel Martin, each one having aged Oloroso Sherries for the full time duration scribed herein. The “wet” cask idea that always pops up here and there as genesis for the natural color of the whiskies is factually inaccurate, as the 5+ liters of Sherry left in the casks becomes (mostly, if not fully) absorbed by the Oak during both the roughly 3 month and 1 month (total time) boat and road trips to Edradour, respectively…🥃🏰🥃

Who doesn't love a good bomb? :p

Hey G, I tried the Edradour 12 yesterday and it was amazing. It is hard to find though honestly and kind of expensive at $100 per bottle. I have never come across this version. I wish I had access to the whiskys you have access to in Taiwan... btw, it is kind of strange that you dont review Taiwanese whisky... they are excellent!

Disappointed you didn't include that blender recipe in the comments

Probably in the minority here, but I personally prefer smaller bottles. 700ml is just way too much for me. There is so much whisky out there I want to try. Can't keep up. Samples are too small. 200-375ml would be perfect. I can enjoy it long term and I can share some and it wont stay open for years and years.

Last Edradour I had was a 7 yo sherry cask matured single cask and it was underwhelming, to say the least. A wet cask that produced a whisky that was eventually more a sherry. Lacking body and complexity. Sticky sweet and not much else. I stay away from those suspiciously dark, young sherry bombs.