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Ballechin Whisky Sponge Edition No. 5 14 Year Old, Refill Sherry Hogshead Cask, 2005, Whisky Sponge, 55%
Ballechin

Ballechin Whisky Sponge Edition No. 5 14 Year Old, Refill Sherry Hogshead Cask, 2005, Whisky Sponge, 55%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 28
Average Score
Avg 87
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Description

A small (once Scotland's smallest) distillery in Perthshire that began production in 1837. It is today owned by the independent bottler-turned-distiller, Signatory Vintage, who have placed a renewed focus on its single malt brands, introducing the heavily peated Ballechin in 2006. The former flagship brand of Perth-based independent bottler, Decadent Drinks, and the catalyst for the company itself ...

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Whisky AuctioneerAuction Sold Price - Mar 9, 2026SGD 167.10
Cask type
Refill Sherry Hogshead
Bottling
Independent Bottling - Whisky Sponge
Peated
Peated
Single cask
Yes
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
N.A
Batch
No. 5
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
N.A
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
202
Has box
N.A
Closure
Screw Cap
Presentation
N.A
Series highlights
Whisky Sponge Edition No. 5
Historical context
N.A
Special release
N.A
Allocation
N.A
Nose
some pipe tobacco, leather jackets and mentholated notes as well as some varnished top notes. Damp warehouses, soot and flax. Chocolate and Schwarzwalderham in the background. Punchy pepper too. Sticky toffee pudding and maple syrup is joined by chocolate ganache and honeycomb. Air-dried serrano ham and poached plums sit with burnt toffee, ginger and nutmeg spicing and thickly applied wood lacquer. Sweet peat with a scorched and charred fruit-forward characteristic.
Palate
there's a darkness of soot and pure chocolate, but also a brighter fruity side. Cherries in booze, brambles, berry eau-de-vie. A little chilli and walnuts. Plenty of tobacco leaves and leather again, mixed with earthy smoke and a little oak char. Oily and greasy. An oak burning stove inside a felt-roofed potting shed where the owner is frying bacon lardons whilst making a supply of jams and preserves. Chilli chocolate joins leaf mulch whilst increasing ashiness sits with polished oak and a pot of creosote.
Finish
long, with pepper and liquorice, light soy sauce and bitter chocolate. Quite long with baking spices and persistent sweet, vegetal peat smoke.

88 / 100 · Based on 2 published reviews.

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