Bladnoch 8 Year Old

Bladnoch 26 Year Old 1990 The Nectar Anniversary Edition

Bladnoch, near Wigtown in the Lowlands, has a bit of a rough recent history. The Irishman Raymond Armstrong reopened it in 2000 but had to close it in 2014 – on the court’s order – after a dispute with his brother. The Australian business man David Prior – famous for his five:am yoghurt, a company he sold for 52 million! – bought it in 2015 and...

Score 86/100

Bladnoch 10 Year Old Sheep Label

This will be my last review on Connosr, as tomorrow it will become a read-only site. In the lead-up to Passover (I seal my cabinet for the duration of the holiday and it ends on Tuesday, after the change) I made a number of tasting notes so that I could post some of the many reviews that I had wanted to get to for a long time. My relationship...

Score 99/100

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 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