Blair Athol 8 Year Old

Blair Athol 14 Year Old Distillery Only

Blair Athol can be found in Pitlochry, a stone’s throw away from the little Edradour distillery. The production water is taken from the Allt Dour Burn, meaning ‘the burn of the otter’. The first name of the distillery was based on this: Aldour Distillery. Today, Blair Athol produces around 2.8 million litres of spirit per annum, mostly for the...

Score 86/100

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

This flora and fauna 12 year old is the only official distillery bottling and it is a full bodied whisky matured in sherry casks. Nose: Sticky toffee pudding, dark fruits, rich and spicy. Ginger cake. Hint of citrus. Taste: Rich fruit cake. Rounded, nutty and spicy. Robust sherry but never over-heavy.

Score 81/100

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

From a 3cl sample bottle. Blair Athol is fairly unknown as a single malt as aside from this flora and fauna bottling most of the distillery output goes into Bell's blends. That's not really a glowing endorsement in my book and from my personal experience of Bell's, but actually I really enjoyed this. Nose - Coffee first up, tiramisu, rich toffee,...

Score 86/100

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