Blair Athol 1977 29 Year Old Duncan Taylor

Blair Athol 28 Year Old 1976 Samaroli

This Blair Athol has been sitting in the bottle for more than ten years. I scored the sample a little over a year ago. It was distilled in 1976 when I was just a small boy. This Highlander is no less than 28 years old and matured on a sherry cask. In terms of maturation, this is the oldest Blair Athol I have tried so far. It was bottled by 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 14 Year Old 1998 Asta Morris

Did you know that Blair Ahtol originally was called Aldour Distillery? No? No matter, not many do. But they had a difficult start, to say the least. Founded in 1798, thus being one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, they changed hands five times before being closed in 1932. Until Arthur Bell stepped in. Since 1998, she is Diageo-owned. But enough...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 26 Year Old 1986 'Autumn Berries' Wemyss

This is only the 10th Blair Athol that I try. It has a nice age with its 26 years on a bourbon cask, distilled in the year in which I purchased my first moped. It was bottled by Wemyss and got the name Autumn Berries. Wow, this is a fresh spring nose. Forget autumn. It is very light and approachable with lemongrass, hay, icing sugar, sweet malt...

Score 83/100