This ultra-premium range of limited-edition single malts is the pinnacle of Eden Mill’s luxury offerings. Each year we engage an artist with a connection to the historic town of St Andrews to create a bespoke piece to wrap around the whisky, creating a product experience that perfectly combines the craftsmanship of making both whisky and art.

For this fourth edition of five, we selected Babs Pease, whose vivid, hand-carved linocut prints tell intricate stories of place. It’s hard not to be inspired by a town like St Andrews, which is spilling over with legends and mysterious traditions, and often cloaked in the dramatic gloom of the east-coast weather.

Babs hand-carved a view of the scenic harbour, capturing a quintessential Fife fishing village aesthetic that includes St Andrews’ ruined spires, cobbled streets and dramatic coastline. There are references to the red-cloaked university students who promenade down the pier each week, a golfer in a famous St Andrews Links bunker, and the swirling currents and crashing waves of the North Sea, all captured in a rich and surprising colour palette that reflects the red wine casks the whisky was matured in.

Babs guides a flood of ink into her piece layer upon layer, trusting in the swirling tides of colour to make something beautiful when the press is lifted. It was this element of her work that made her perfect for this project — Babs' process mirrors the journey of the cask-aged whisky itself. As the whisky ages in the barrel a combination of elements come together to inform the story: the quality of the wood, the body of the Amarone itself, the slightest changes in humidity. Skill and chance become part of the piece, both lending something beautiful to the finished article — whether that be whisky or print.

You can buy the 2024 release here.

You can read about the award winning 2023 Jill Calder collaboration here, the 2022 Mairi Clark collaboration here, and the 2019 Hilke MacIntyre collaboration here.