Blair Athol 16 Year Old 1995 Directors Cut Douglas Laing

Blair Athol 23 Year Old 1989 Anam na h-Alba

Let me start up front with the fact that my experience with Blair Athol is limited. I tried the regular 12 Year Old Fauna & Flora at the Laichmoray Hotel in Elgin which I found to be lacking. I tried the 20 Year Old from A.D. Rattray for Belgium, which I found very nice. This one too has a high age and great ABV, so I am hoping my third...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 25 Year Old A.D. Rattray for Belgium

Jurgen’s Whiskyhuis, a Belgian retailer, recently held an open day, presenting an exclusive world premiere: his own bottling of this 25 Year Old Blair Athol. It is a distillery that does not get bottled as a single malt very often (most of it disappears into blends like Bell’s), a fact that contributes largely to the appeal of this release. It was...

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

From a 3cl sample bottle. Blair Athol is fairly unknown as a single malt as aside from this flora and fauna bottling most of the distillery output goes into Bell's blends. That's not really a glowing endorsement in my book and from my personal experience of Bell's, but actually I really enjoyed this. Nose - Coffee first up, tiramisu, rich toffee,...

Score 86/100