Bladnoch 14 Year Old

Bladnoch SMWS 50.51 - Wedding cake and jelly babies

Like many of the lower profile Scottish distilleries, this one has had a very troubled past. Quite small (100,000L / year), it was founded by Thomas and James McClelland in 1817 on the Bladnoch River. In 1911 it was bought by an Irish company; in 1937 it went bankrupt, then was bought and sold six times in the next few years. In 1985 it was bought...

Score 81/100

Bladnoch 22 Year Old 1992 Exclusive Malts Creative Whisky Company

David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company recently restyled their Exlusive Malts range. I think the new bottles and labels look fantastic. Hopefully that can also be said of the contents. In this case, it is a Bladnoch 1992 at cask strength. This is the 5th Bladnoch bottled by CWC. Coincidentally it is also the 5th Bladnoch that I try. Lovely fresh...

Score 86/100

Bladnoch 22 Year Old 1977 Old Malt Cask

This Bladnoch has spent almost as long in the bottle than it has on the cask. It’s an older release in the Old Malt Cask series when the label was still part of Douglas Laing’s portfolio. This Lowlander, bottled at 50%, was distilled in the year that Star Wars hit the silver screen. Just sayin… Fan-tas-tic nose on white and yellow fruit, but with...

Score 88/100

Bladnoch 8 Year Old 2009 CaskAid

CaskAid is a npo that selects some nice single casks, bottles them and then donates the proceeds to charity. Sipping whisky for a good cause? Best excuse ever! One of their bottlings is this young Bladnoch from 2009, of which they only released 54 bottles. Damn, not again! This nose too is rife with baby puke on the nose, which I also had with the...

Score 81/100