Blair Athol 1975 27 Year Old

Blair Athol 22 Year Old 1989 Signatory

In the Cask Strength Collection, Signatory from Pitlochry bottles single casks at cask strength. In this case I will try a Blair Athol from 1989, that still retains an ABV of 50% after 22 long years on a hogshead. The cask yielded 370 bottles that each fetched around 90 EUR. Hmm, this is an interesting nose. Despite the high ABV it does not burn,...

Score 84/100

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 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

Blair Athol 12 Year Old 1998 Signatory

A few years ago, this Blair Athol was released in Signatory’s Un-Chillfiltered Collection. That means no chill filtration and drinking strength, in this case 13%. For this release, two casks were married, yielding a total of 753 bottles. It is surprisingly pale. Green apples, freshly cut grass and some bubblegum. That is the first impression I get...

Score 83/100