Blair Athol reviews

This is the Flora and Fauna bottling from Diageo that I believe will be ceased, if it isn't already, in the not too distant future. Thankfully there are some bottles out there. It retails at c£50.This…

Blair Athol The First Edition is a whisky bottle by Edition Spirits Ltd. Here is what I found on their site: _Edition Spirits is an independent whisky bottling business owned by Andrew and Scott Laing…

This Blair Athol from 1988 was handpicked by The Whisky Exchange from the stocks of Signatory. Signatory’s warehouses can in fact be found in Pitlochry (at the Edradour distillery), a mere 7 kilometres…

Blair Athol – one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries, founded in 1798 – is run by Diageo since 1998. The lion’s share of production goes into the Bell’s blend so official releases are few and far between…

The fact that this bottle has a contents of 75.7cl tells u sits an old one, probably end of the 1980s. The label proudly proclaimed 8 Year Old Pure Malt, a term that is no longer in use. The name of the…

Gordon & Company has bottled quite a few gems in their aptly named Pearls of Scotland series. This Balblair certainly fits that bill. From 1991, this 24 Year Old Highlander was bottled in September 2015…

Blair Athol, near Pitlochry, is the home base of the famous blend Bell’s. It is only released as single malt in limited quantities by owner Diageo. But independent bottler clearly love it. This is a…

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…

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…

A few years ago, this Blair Athol was released in Signatory’s Un-Chillfiltered Collection. That means no chill filtration and drinking strength, in this case 13%. For this release, two casks were married…