Blair Athol 1995 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon and MacPhail

Blair Athol 12 Year Old

Blair Atholl is part of Diageo's Flora & Fauna range. It's a Highland Malt and mainly matured in ex-bourbon refills and some ex-sherry casks. Caramel, coffee cream and nuts are there on the nose, there's rich fruit and citrus, leather too. A complex nose. The palate is chunky and rich fruit, with spice, maybe cinnamon, and creamy milk...

Score 85/100

Blair Athol 23 Year Old 1989 Anam na h-Alba

Let me start up front with the fact that my experience with Blair Athol is limited. I tried the regular 12 Year Old Fauna & Flora at the Laichmoray Hotel in Elgin which I found to be lacking. I tried the 20 Year Old from A.D. Rattray for Belgium, which I found very nice. This one too has a high age and great ABV, so I am hoping my third...

Score 86/100

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

First hit on the nose is vanilla - very strong. Underlying that is dried fruit - raisins, sultanas, figs. The fruit and vanilla combines like Christmas cake. A nice cinammon spiciness is evident too. Gentle and mellow. Quite a rich full-bodied mouthfeel too - more so than I'd expect from a 12yo. Again fruit dessert flavours dominate with the...

Score 79/100