Edradour Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Edradour Scotch Whisky

Distillery Information

Founded in 1825 by a farmer cooperative

Location Highlands region Midlands district Pitlochry

Water Source Spring on Ben Vrackie

Edradour Scotch Whisky Distilling Equipment

Cast iron mash tun

2 Oregon pine washbacks

2 small stills (smallest allowed under Excise regulations)

Last Morton refrigerator in operation to cool the worts.

Matured in American oak bourbon casks. Various port sherry and wine casks are used to finish some whiskies.

Edradour Distillery, Pitlochry,

Perthshire

PH16 5JP

Tel: +44 (0)1796 473524

Edradour Distillery Visitor Centre Information

Contact +44 (0)1796 472095

Edradour Scotch Whisky Distillery History

Edradour is the smallest malt whisky distillery in Scotland and the last original 'farm' distillery in Perthshire. You'll find the Edradour distillery nestling in a pocket glen in the hills above Pitlochry that form the Southern Highlands. The name Edradour is derived from the Gaelic "Edred dobhar” the stream of King Edred.

The distillery was founded in 1825 by a cooperative of farmers from the area; distilling in the same cluster of stone buildings where Edradour is made today. The minimum legal still size for a still at the time was 40 gallons, and that was size selected by co-operative and has continued to be used to this day.

By 1841 the eight founding farmers decided to form themselves into an official registered company known as “John McGlashan & Co”

Electricity was installed in 1947 previously the waters of Edradour Burn were used to turn wooden paddles to generate power for the distillery.

The Edradour whisky for many years could only be tasted in the House of Campbell's premium blends. These included what was, at one point, the world's most expensive blended whisky, the appropriately named King's Ransom. In 1986 Edradour was bottled as a single malt for the first time.

The Edradour is operated on very traditional methods and equipment the distillery operates the last remaining Morton refrigerator to cool the worts

The precise shape and size of the still is maintained to preserve the character of the whisky so when replacements are needed, the new stills are reproduced exactly to the shape of the originals - right down to the dents which have been acquired over the years.

Edradour is the smallest distillery in Scotland employing just three men. The neat cluster of buildings, virtually unchanged in the last 150 years, houses the distilling equipment that can just about produce commercial quantities of 12 casks a week.

Edradour Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery Bottlings 

Edradour Aged 10 Years

Edradour Ballachin #1 The Burgundy Casks

Edradour Ballachin #2 Madeira Matured

Edradour "Straight from the cask" Aged 10 years Sauternes Finish

Edradour Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Older Distillery Bottlings 

Edradour Aged 10 Years Cask Strength

Edradour Aged 10 Years 50cl Finishes

A Selection of 50cl bottlings finished in the following casks

Barolo, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Chardonnay, Madeira, Marsala, Port, Sauternes and sherry.

Edradour Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Independent Bottlings

Gordon & MacPhail

Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing),

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