Blair Athol 12 Year Old Bottled 1970s

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

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. Gentle and mellow. Quite a rich full-bodied mouthfeel too - more so than I'd expect from a 12yo. Again fruit dessert flavours dominate with the...

Score 79/100

Blair Athol 12 Year Old 2009 IN2Spirit

The second release of the new Belgian bottler IN2Spirit is a young Blair Athol from of a refill hogshead, which explains it’s pale tan. Delicious fruity nose on apples and pears, hint of pineapple and the juice of young branches. Barley sugars and apricot pastry on Sunday morning. Another hint of lime and some caramel. Very accessible and very...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 14 Year Old Distillery Only

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 the distillery was based on this: Aldour Distillery. Today, Blair Athol produces around 2.8 million litres of spirit per annum, mostly for the...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 25 Year Old 1988 Van Wees

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, revealing an active cask. OMG! This is what I call deep sherry. Plums, cherries, dades, figs, blackberries, raisins, tobacco and the leather of an old...

Score 88/100