Bladnoch 6 Year Old Sherry Cask

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 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

Bladnoch 10 Year Old

The nose is quite nice with strong vanilla and figs intermingled with citrusy orange. The palate offers you sweet honey and pudding and then towards the end a warm aroma of spicy burnt ginger and orange. The finish could have been longer, in my opinion. Critics love this whisky but I dont.

Score 79/100

Bladnoch 21 Year Old 1991 Riverstown

Bladnoch is the kind of distillery that you do not often come accross. Certainly not an official one. A lot has to do, I think, with the fact that the distillery had been for sale for over a year. Raymond and Colin Armstrong and two partners bought the distillery from Diageo in 1994, but two owners (including Colin) wanted to sell it, while to...

Score 85/100