Ballechin 10 year old 2013/2023 Horseman No. 2

Profile: The Ballechin 10 year old 2013/2023 Horseman No. 2 at a glance

• Heavenly Drams: The new Signatory Series Horsemen & Archangels
• Archangels & Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Two New Small Batch Series from Signatory
• Rider No. 2: The second bottling presents the second of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
• Highlands Single Malt Whisky: Ballechin of two 1st-fill Oloroso Sherry Butts

Portrait: what the Ballechin 10 year old 2013/2023 Horseman No. 2.

In turbulent times, people like to reflect on what is permanent.  

And what is more everlasting than the sky above our heads, whether blue or gray? Two new small-batch series are now looking heavenward. 

The Horsemen, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and the Archangels, the archangel quartet, deliver their prophecy with powerful imagery: cask-sized delights.  

For this one, the bottlings draw on Signatory Vintage's almost biblical wood treasure.

On the back of Horseman No. 2 the Ballechin 10 years 2013/2023 gallops into the new round of the series. Already the gloomy, foggy label by Tom Thiel, whose art is immortalized on CD covers of the melodic death metal band "Amon Amarth" or on Signatory's Vikings series, already indicates to: It's getting smoky again.

The neither colored nor chill-filtered single malt comes from the strongly peaty part of the Edradour Distillery. After 10 years it was bottled from two first-fill Oloroso Sherry Butts.

Distilled: 2013
Bottled: 2023
Cask type: 1st-fill Oloroso Sherry Butts
Outturn: 1,378 bottles

Tasting Notes: This is how the Ballechin 10 year old 2013/2023 Horseman No. 2 tastes like

• Nose: intense peat smoke and extinguished campfire, with ripe dark berries and old leather - sweet figs and raisins in the background
• Palate: mouth-filling and strong in taste - clearly ripe plums and spicy oak - behind them juicy raisins and roasted oak - over all leather and strong peat smoke
• Finish: long in the mouth Departure - lots of peat and spicy wood - the fruits recede a bit