Bladnoch 13 Year Old

Bladnoch 10 Year Old

The nose is quite nice with strong vanilla and figs intermingled with citrusy orange. The palate offers you sweet honey and pudding and then towards the end a warm aroma of spicy burnt ginger and orange. The finish could have been longer, in my opinion. Critics love this whisky but I dont.

Score 79/100

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

Bladnoch 20 Year Old 1992 Malts of Scotland

Bladnoch is a distillery that has not appeared often on my blog. I have only tried three so far, including the fantastic Bladnoch 21 Year Old 1991 for The Bonding Dram, that I helped select. It is the first time for me, however, to try a Bladnoch that matured on a sherry cask. Well, after the first whiff, I do not exaclty think of Lowland. This is...

Score 85/100

Bladnoch 21 Year Old 1990 Single Cask Collection

This Bladnoch was distilled in the ear of United Distillers, so before the Irishman Raymond Armstrong came along in 1995 to take over. The Austrian Single Cask Collection bottled this cask in 2011 after a 21 year maturation on a bourbon hoggie. This is only my third Bladnoch and again one at 21 years of age. Go figure. The nose is very clean,...

Score 82/100