Bladnoch 20 Year Old 1992 cask 9431 Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing)

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 22 Year Old 1977 Old Malt Cask

This Bladnoch has spent almost as long in the bottle than it has on the cask. It’s an older release in the Old Malt Cask series when the label was still part of Douglas Laing’s portfolio. This Lowlander, bottled at 50%, was distilled in the year that Star Wars hit the silver screen. Just sayin… Fan-tas-tic nose on white and yellow fruit, but with...

Score 88/100

Bladnoch 8 Year Old

Let me start by saying that this bottle is utterly unfindable and that I am tasting from a miniature that has been gathering dust in my cabinet for years. It is an official Bladnoch 8 Year Old, bottled in 1988, so it was distilled in either 1979 or 1980. The distillery, by the way, was recently purchased by an Australian businessman, giving...

Score 82/100

Bladnoch 19 Year Old Sheep Label

Bladnoch is one of the 6 remaining Lowland distilleries, and is located the most southerly whisky distillery in Scotland. The 19 yr old is now discontinued and has been replaced by a 20 yr old version. For this review I used a Glencairn and the bottle has been open for several months. Nose - Initially you get a dry spiciness with sweet vanilla and...

Score 88/100