Bladnoch reviews

This is an official release from the period when the Armstrong brothers were in charge. Distilled in 2001, bottled in 2011 – so almost as long in the bottle than on the cask. Raymond and Colin clearly…

Now this is a golden oldie. It matured for only 9 years and did it last century. By now it has spent more than 20 years in the bottle, but that will not stop us from trying this Bladnoch 1985 – distilled…

This Bladnoch has spent almost as long in the bottle than it has on the cask. It’s an older release in the Old Malt Cask series when the label was still part of Douglas Laing’s portfolio. This Lowlander…

Bladnoch as a bit of a difficult history. This most southern of Scottish distilleries was founded in 1817, expanded in 1878, but then closed in 1938. It was not reopened until 1956, but in 1993 it closed…

Six months ago today @bwmccoy visited my wife and me and brought us some whisky samples. Four days after he left my wife's illness intensified and she was in pain nearly all of the time until she passed…

Neat at the lobby bar of Hotel Puerta América, Madrid. It pours rather pale, more than we are usually used to when it comes to whisky: clean pale wheat is the color. Aroma is intense, even very intense…

CaskAid is a npo that selects some nice single casks, bottles them and then donates the proceeds to charity. Sipping whisky for a good cause? Best excuse ever! One of their bottlings is this young Bla…

When David Prior – who made his fortune selling yoghurt – took over Bladnoch in 2015, some 2500 casks of maturing whisky were included in the deal. This Adela is composed with casks that matured for at…

Samsara is the entry level malt of the ‘new’ Bladnoch that is being run by Australian businessman David Prior since 2015. This is a NAS-whisky, obviously composed with stocks that were laid down by…

Bladnoch, near Wigtown in the Lowlands, has a bit of a rough recent history. The Irishman Raymond Armstrong reopened it in 2000 but had to close it in 2014 – on the court’s order – after a dispute with…