Blair Athol 1973 21 Year Old First Cask

Blair Athol 1988 / 27 Year Old / Signatory / TWE Exclusive

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 from the Blair Athol distillery. Just a little fun fact. The cask yielded 565 bottles, which can still be ordered from the TWE website and even...

Score 87/100

Blair Athol 9 Year Old 2009 Druma Mor

Druma Mor is a series of malts from a young (2019), independent bottler from… Belgium! It is run by Geert De Bolle, well known in the Belgian whisky scene. So far they have 6 releases out and this young Blair Athol is one of the first. Druma Mor translate more or less to ‘Drumfield’, which is a reference to the Trommelveld in Affligem, Geert’s...

Score 85/100

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 12 Year Old

Nose: nutty, peat, smoky bacon, sherry, malt. Palate: Smoke, malt, lemons, dried fruit, cinnamon toast. Finish: Long, smoky and sweet that turn drying. A remarkable surprise. A really nice smoky peated malt. Well balanced, smooth mouth feel, engaging and very Moorish.

Score 85/100