Balblair 35 Year Old 1964 Lost Bottlings Series Master of Malt

Balblair 1997

Nose: clean barley with soft vanilla. Really fresh and minty, with quite a lot of fruity notes (apple, orange, lemon, pineapple). Honey. Also spicy notes (cinnamon) from the oak. I quite like the nose. Mouth: sweet attack, again really fruity (pineapple, apricot, grapefruit). Vanilla. Subtle oak. Very light hints of peat. Evolving on spices and...

Score 80/100

Balblair 1997 (2012 ed)

Nose: What a delight : vanilla, sweet honey, pineapple, banana peel , fruit and ginger candy.you can call it fruit salad madness , and you’d be right. so nice. honey, the aromas just scream out there to you, no need to go looking’ bits of lemon curd here and there. truly lovely stuff! when you let it rest you get a bit of charred wood. Fruit noses...

Score 87/100

Balblair 1990 2nd Release

This official release of Balblair matured for a quarter of a century. It is the so-called 2nd Release of the vintage 1990 that appeared in 2016. It has been cut to 46% (which I secretly find a bit of a shame). I still have some trouble realizing that 1990 is now more than thirty years ago... This is very fruity on the nose, though. Think peach,...

Score 87/100

Balblair 12 Year Old 2008 Connoisseurs Choice

Whisky Warehouse is the Belgian importer and representative of Gordon & Macphail and regularly a bottling is launched especially for them. This is one of those: a Blair Athol in the Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength series. The color alone makes my mouth water. It’s leaves nice legs onto the glass. Sticky. Very sweet on the nose with those...

Score 87/100