{"product_id":"edradour-caledonia-12-year-old","title":"Edradour Caledonia 12 Year Old","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdradour produces a typical full and intense style of Highland malt with very small pot stills. Up until the 2002 purchase by Andrew Symington, the distillery’s range was limited to a 10 year old single malt and Edradour had built a pretty undesirable reputation for batch variation (inconsistent whisky). Behind closed doors this is attributed to the distillers at the time’s almost permanent state of inebriation…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymington however, together with new distillery manager Iain Henderson (ex-Laphroaig and retrieved from retirement), very cleverly turned this perceived weakness into what has today become Edradour’s key strength. By shifting the focus to single cask expressions and experimenting with a large variety of casks such as port, Sauternes, Madeira, Burgundy, chardonnay, super Tuscan and even other spirit casks such as rum, they celebrated and enhanced the variations in Edradour’s spirit, in so doing creating a huge amount of distillery bottlings, arguably the most diverse range of whiskies in the world, and a cult following of whisky fanatics of course. Ever the traditionalists, and no doubt thanks to Henderson’s influence, Edradour recreated the traditional peated style of highland whisky that had died out in the early 1900s. First released in 2006, this expression is called Ballechin and is peated to 50ppm, one of the most heavily opeated whiskies outside of Islay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite Edradour’s huge range, a very limited amount makes it to Australia and Dougie Maclean’s Caledonia Selection 12 Year Old is no exception. Singer\/songwriter Dougie Maclean is a Scottish legend who penned the song Caledonia in under 10 minutes on a beach in Brittany in 1977 during a bout of homesickness. Caledonia has gone on to become the unofficial Scottish anthem, resonating with the Scottish diaspora across the globe, much like Cold Chisel’s Khe Sahn amongst expat Australians. The bottling was originally conceived as a one-off single cask selected in 2009 by Maclean himself but it was so popular that Edradour decided to continue the bottling of this single malt but this time releasing it as a 46% single malt which is initially matured in ex-Bourbon casks followed by an Oloroso sherry maturation of four to five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I wrote Caledonia, in 1977 on a beach in Brittany, France, when I was genuinely homesick for Scotland. My life has always been based in Perthshire. For me, the location of Edradour, with its neat cluster of whitewashed buildings, traditional equipment and employment of ancient methods of making single malt whisky, combined with its state of the art bottling facility, typify Caledonia. So it is great to be joining forces with Andrew Symington and Edradour Distillery, to bring you this wonderfully rich and complex 12 year old single malt.” Dougie Maclean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the Scottish sentimentality at the heart of its brand, this is a big and robust dram; a stand-out whisky from one of the largest and most diverse whisky ranges in the world which has attracted its cult following for very good reason. We’re delighted to welcome Edradour Caledonia 12 Year Old to our shores and about as far from Scotland as you can get, exclusively for our members’ enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edradour Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46489901760591,"sku":"WC0054","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/edradour_caledonia_12_year_old.png?v=1787700899","url":"https:\/\/thewhiskyclub.com.au\/products\/edradour-caledonia-12-year-old","provider":"The Whisky Club AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}