Blair Athol 8 Year Old Bottled 1980's 75cl

Blair Athol 25 Year Old 1986 Adelphi

Blair Athol is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, founded in Pitlochry in 1798 by John Stewart and Robert Robertson, then under the name Aldour Distillery. In 1825 she was rechristened to Blair Athol. A large part of the production still goes into the Bell’s blends, but from time to time an independent bottler can get his hands on an...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 25 Year Old A.D. Rattray for Belgium

Jurgen’s Whiskyhuis, a Belgian retailer, recently held an open day, presenting an exclusive world premiere: his own bottling of this 25 Year Old Blair Athol. It is a distillery that does not get bottled as a single malt very often (most of it disappears into blends like Bell’s), a fact that contributes largely to the appeal of this release. It was...

Score 84/100

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

From a 3cl sample bottle. Blair Athol is fairly unknown as a single malt as aside from this flora and fauna bottling most of the distillery output goes into Bell's blends. That's not really a glowing endorsement in my book and from my personal experience of Bell's, but actually I really enjoyed this. Nose - Coffee first up, tiramisu, rich toffee,...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 14 Year Old Distillery Only

Blair Athol can be found in Pitlochry, a stone’s throw away from the little Edradour distillery. The production water is taken from the Allt Dour Burn, meaning ‘the burn of the otter’. The first name of the distillery was based on this: Aldour Distillery. Today, Blair Athol produces around 2.8 million litres of spirit per annum, mostly for the...

Score 86/100