Blair Athol 8 Year Old Coat of Arms Bottled 1980s

Blair Athol 26 Year Old 1986 'Autumn Berries' Wemyss

This is only the 10th Blair Athol that I try. It has a nice age with its 26 years on a bourbon cask, distilled in the year in which I purchased my first moped. It was bottled by Wemyss and got the name Autumn Berries. Wow, this is a fresh spring nose. Forget autumn. It is very light and approachable with lemongrass, hay, icing sugar, sweet malt...

Score 83/100

Blair Athol 10 Year Old 2007 Signatory Vintage

‘Hey, Mark, I have here a Blair Athol. I was wondering if you had tried it yet.’ I confess, with almost 4500 tasted whiskies on my counter, I do not know this by heart. ‘I’ll have to check my website,’ I declare. ‘It’s not on there,’ Benny declares, expectantly holding the bottle with a good measure still in it. ‘Well, then I have not yet tried...

Score 79/100

Blair Athol 22 Year Old 1989 Signatory

In the Cask Strength Collection, Signatory from Pitlochry bottles single casks at cask strength. In this case I will try a Blair Athol from 1989, that still retains an ABV of 50% after 22 long years on a hogshead. The cask yielded 370 bottles that each fetched around 90 EUR. Hmm, this is an interesting nose. Despite the high ABV it does not burn,...

Score 84/100

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