Edradour 5 Year Old 2020 Signatory Vintage Single 1st Fill Pedro Ximenez Hogshead #37 200th Anniversary Whisky Live Paris Limited Edition Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2025) 70cl
1 of 296 bottles produced from a single PX cask exclusively for Whisky Live Paris 2025
An exclusive single malt from the Edradour distillery , one of the smallest and most traditional distilleries in Scotland. This special bottling was created for Edradour's 200th anniversary at Whisky Live Paris 2025 and is a single cask matured in a first-fill Pedro Ximénez (PX) sherry cask (#37) , making it a unique collector's edition.
Distilled in 2020 and matured for 5 years in a first-fill PX cask before being bottled in 2025. The sherry cask maturation imparts intense sweetness, rich fruit aromas, and a dark, seductive color
About Edradour
At first glance, Edradour could be confused for a working museum rather than an active, energetic distillery.
The low-slung farm buildings contain traditional equipment – mashing is in a one tonne, open-topped, rake and plough mash tun, the wort is cooled in a replica of an old ‘Morton’s refrigerator’, the washbacks are wooden, the tiny stills lead into worm tubs.
The make is robust but fruity and since the Signatory takeover, ex-Sherry casks have been the preferred destination for the new make. A wide number of fortified wine and still wine casks have also been used for ‘finishing’. Ballechin, on the other hand, which is also produced at the distillery, is deemed to show itself better in ex-Bourbon casks.
Another of central Perthshire’s multiplicity of farm distilleries, Edradour started production at its current site in 1837, although one of the farmers who formed that original consortium, Duncan Forbes, had been legally distilling close by since 1825. The plentiful supplies of water, tight, hidden glens, and access to back roads into Perth, made this a prime area for moonshining, so it is entirely possible (even probable) that Forbes knew the intricacies of whisky-making before going legit.
It remained associated with the original grouping until 1933, when the Mackintosh family sold it as a (barely) going concern to the famous blending house of William Whiteley. Quite why Whiteley bought such a small distillery – it was Scotland’s tiniest for many years – has never been fully explained. The firm had built up a solid business in the US during Prohibition with its King’s Ransom blend, thanks to Whiteley’s appointment of none other than Mafia boss Frank Costello as his US sales representative. Five years later, Costello’s associate Irving Haim took over as Edradour’s owner, with Costello (and his firm) taking a share of sales of King’s Ransom. This slightly unusual arrangement lasted until Haim’s death in 1976.
In 1982 the distillery, once again in a bad state, was sold to Pernod Ricard subsidiary Campbell Distillers who immediately opened it to visitors. It continued to play a low-key role in blends until 1986, when it first appeared as a single malt.
In 2002, Pernod Ricard deemed it surplus to its requirements and it was sold to independent bottler Signatory Vintage. It was a perfect fit. Since then, Signatory has built extensive warehousing for its own casks, a bottling line, a tasting room and expanded production to include heavily peated variant Ballechin. One of the prettiest distilleries in Scotland, Edradour remains a major tourist attraction.
60% ABV
70cl
