Bladnoch Lightly Peated 7 Year Old

Bladnoch 8 Year Old "beltie"

Bladnoch do a beltie (bourbon casks) and a sheep label (sherry casks) and both cask strength and normal strength of their whisky produced since restarting production. We have the 8 year old cask strength beltie in our regions tasting. Some comments. Some of the comments Nose: "oily with linseed and fresh salad notes at first, but with water...

Score 80/100

Bladnoch 9 Year Old 1985 Gordon & Macphail Cask Strength

Now this is a golden oldie. It matured for only 9 years and did it last century. By now it has spent more than 20 years in the bottle, but that will not stop us from trying this Bladnoch 1985 – distilled when I did not even ride my first moped. This also means it was distilled while the owner was (the predecessor of) Diageo. And while 1985 may not...

Score 83/100

Bladnoch 10 Year Old

Raymond Armstrong took this distillery to an entirely new level when he bought it. Unfortunately the distillery has been limited in how much spirit it may produce, making this dram extremely hard to find outside the uk. Such a pity. Even though production is so low, they still put out bottles at or near cask strength, at a very reasonable price...

Score 95/100

Bladnoch 16 Year Old Sheep Label

This is a very soft drinking whisky like all lowland whiskies. It has a nice citrus taste and smell. This whisky is almost as good as Rosebank. As Rosebank, Bladnoch has been closed but this distillery re-opened some years ago. The 16 and 18 year old are from before it has been closed so I am curious if it will taste the same as before.

Score 90/100