Blair Athol 1995 Managers' Choice Sherry Cask

Blair Athol 8 Year Old bottled 1980s

The fact that this bottle has a contents of 75.7cl tells u sits an old one, probably end of the 1980s. The label proudly proclaimed 8 Year Old Pure Malt, a term that is no longer in use. The name of the then-owner – Arthur Bell & Sons – is also mentioned. This old Blair Athol was bottled at the minimum strength and was in that era the standard...

Score 83/100

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 27 Year Old 1975 Rare Malts Selection

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 Bell’s & Sons. My list shows that this is only the sixth Blair Athol that I tried. Got to get me some more of this stuff. The nose is very...

Score 87/100

Blair Athol 10 Year Old 2009 Cask 88

Cask 88 is a Scottish company mainly engaged in trading barrels, designing bottles and bottling for companies, particularly in the Far East. But in 2016 they bottled a whisky under their own label for the first time: a 14-year-old Highland Park from 2003. In my glass is a Blair Athol from 2009 that was bottled at cask strength in 2019 in the...

Score 83/100