Blair Athol reviews

In the Cask Strength Collection, Signatory from Pitlochry bottles single casks at cask strength. In this case I will try a Blair Athol from 1989, that still retains an ABV of 50% after 22 long years on…

This Blair Athol is a quarter of a century old and was bottled by the Dutch Van Wees. It is a refill sherry butt that yielded no less than 394 bottles at drinking strength. It is very, very dark, reve…

This Blair Athol has been sitting in the bottle for more than ten years. I scored the sample a little over a year ago. It was distilled in 1976 when I was just a small boy. This Highlander is no less…

Nose: nutty, peat, smoky bacon, sherry, malt. Palate: Smoke, malt, lemons, dried fruit, cinnamon toast. Finish: Long, smoky and sweet that turn drying.A remarkable surprise. A really nice smoky peated…

From a 3cl sample bottle. Blair Athol is fairly unknown as a single malt as aside from this flora and fauna bottling most of the distillery output goes into Bell's blends. That's not really a glowing…

Bought this bottle about a year ago, on what was supposed to be my last day in Scotland as an exchange student. My plane would leave late in the evening, so I got up early, got on a bus going to Pitlo…

Blair Athol can be found in Pitlochry, a stone’s throw away from the little Edradour distillery. The production water is taken from the Allt Dour Burn, meaning ‘the burn of the otter’. The first name of…

One of the few official bottlings from Blair Ahtol is this 27 Year Old from 1975, released by Diageo in their Rare Malts Selection. Diageo took control of the distillery in 1998, acquiring it from Arthur…

Did you know that Blair Ahtol originally was called Aldour Distillery? No? No matter, not many do. But they had a difficult start, to say the least. Founded in 1798, thus being one of Scotland’s oldest…

First hit on the nose is vanilla - very strong. Underlying that is dried fruit - raisins, sultanas, figs. The fruit and vanilla combines like Christmas cake. A nice cinammon spiciness is evident too.…