Blair Athol 12 Year Old 1997 Un-Chillfiltered Signatory

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

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 Pitlochry, for one last distillery visit. It had been raining all week (not that unusual) but the small streams in Pertshire clearly couldn't handle that...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 4 Year Old 2015 Archives for Klubb23

Klubb23 is a whisky society (they call themselves a ‘brodirhood’) of only 23 members. They are connected to the Belgian club BYOB-C, of which Dominic is also one of the founders. Klubb23 currently has three releases out: a Blair Athol, a Deanston and a Croftengea. So let’s give those a go. This 4 years old (!) Blair Athol was bottled in...

Score 84/100

Blair Athol 21 Year Old 1995 Valinch & Mallet

Blair Athol – one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, founded in 1798 – is run by Diageo since 1998. The lion’s share of production goes into the Bell’s blend so official releases are few and far between. Luckily, it can often be found with independent bottlers. This is one from the fairly new Italian bottler Valinch & Mallet. The nose is sweet...

Score 86/100

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