Blair Athol 1995 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon and MacPhail

Blair Athol 10 Year Old 2007 Signatory Vintage

‘Hey, Mark, I have here a Blair Athol. I was wondering if you had tried it yet.’ I confess, with almost 4500 tasted whiskies on my counter, I do not know this by heart. ‘I’ll have to check my website,’ I declare. ‘It’s not on there,’ Benny declares, expectantly holding the bottle with a good measure still in it. ‘Well, then I have not yet tried...

Score 79/100

Blair Athol 25 Year Old 1986 Adelphi

Blair Athol is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, founded in Pitlochry in 1798 by John Stewart and Robert Robertson, then under the name Aldour Distillery. In 1825 she was rechristened to Blair Athol. A large part of the production still goes into the Bell’s blends, but from time to time an independent bottler can get his hands on an...

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

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

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 malt. Well balanced, smooth mouth feel, engaging and very Moorish.

Score 85/100