Blair Athol 12 Year Old 1995 Provenance Douglas Laing

Blair Athol 24 Year Old 1991 Pearls of Scotland

Gordon & Company has bottled quite a few gems in their aptly named Pearls of Scotland series. This Balblair certainly fits that bill. From 1991, this 24 Year Old Highlander was bottled in September 2015. Fruity nose on juicy pears, Pim’s jam cookies with oranges and some apricot marmalade. Goosberries. Very sweet, but very good. There is also...

Score 84/100

Blair Athol 28 Year Old 1988 Cadenhead’s Small Batch

Blair Athol started its career in 1798 as the Aldour Distillery, named after the Allt Dour Burn, which means ‘old burn of the otter’. This burn still provides the distillery with production water. Since 1998 it is part of Diageo and produces around 2.8 million liters of spirit per annum. The bulk goes to the blenders – Bell’s being the largest...

Score 85/100

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

This is the Flora and Fauna bottling from Diageo that I believe will be ceased, if it isn't already, in the not too distant future. Thankfully there are some bottles out there. It retails at c£50. This bottle has been open a month or so with just over two thirds left. Review is with no water added to a 30ml pour left 15 mins or so. Nose -...

Score 87/100

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