Edition Spirits ‘The First Editions’ Speyburn 2005 (12 year old) 56.2%
Sherry Butt/ Code: EDI0340/ HL14654
Dist: Oct 2005 Btl: 2018/ Tasted: Mar 2018
A chunky, coffee and raw cereal nose. Quite malty and toffee’d with developing, luscious apricot and orange conserve. With time a touch of cider apple.
The palate is grippy and toffee’d with gritty tannins, malt, cereal and apricot. Rather foursquare and lacking a bit of elegance. Medium length with the finish a little masked but lingering malt and a subtle, dark chocolate after-taste.
Diluted the nose becomes delightfully honeyed and floral. It’s really opened up now and shows hints of honeysuckle and sweet barley. The palate now shows crunchy barley, sweet honey, citrus, pear, peach and orange conserve. Now it has the wow factor! Good length with lingering honey, citrus and dark chocolate.
Edition Spirits ‘The First Editions’ Speyburn 2006 (12 year old) 56.3%
Sherry Butt/ Code: EDI0421/ HL15539
Dist: Oct 2006 Btl: 2018/ Tasted: Dec 2018
The nose is subtly sherried with just a touch of dried fruit. Pleasantly barley’d with milk chocolate and a little edgy spirit coming through. Late gooseberry, pear and cinnamon dust.
The palate is as subtly sherried as the nose suggests with dried fruit, liquorice, coffee and milk chocolate. Hints of barley, apricot and banana beneath. Full and juicy with lingering woody spice, raisin and barley.
Water makes the nose oily and waxy with a subtle orange note and more aromatic and nutty sherry character. There’s a little more woody spice on the palate now, but the natural oils balance. Sweet orange notes on the middle with more mineral, barley and honey on the finish.
Edition Spirits ‘The First Edition’ Speyburn 2007 (14 year old) 50.2%
Sherry Finish/ Code: EDI0685
Dist: Mar 2007 Btl: 2021?/ Tasted: June 2021
A very heavily sherried nose – Prune, walnut, treacle and raisinated fruit. A touch of citrus and spice but not much else.
The palate is dry and very tannic. Again loads of raisinated fruit and treacle. Medium length with lingering dried fruit and spice.
Diluted its still very sherried, although there is a touch more citrus. However there is a slight sulphur blemish now and more drying tannins.
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