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Blair Athol 22 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Particular 1997 Single Sherry Butt DL13390 (2019) 70cl
1 of 594 Bottles
Germany have long been known for their strictness when choosing a cask for their nation when it comes to single casking. "the best or nothing at all" is a phrase synonymous with a lot of the ethos of many companies that tends to carry on over into other industries.
Having been in specialist and craft Scotch Whisky production for generations, Douglas Laing originally exported blends, but now carries the family name down the line by focusing on bottling exceptional single malts and grains as part of their Old Particular, Provenance and XOP ranges. They also enjoy huge success with their "Remarkable Regional Malts" range; a series of creatively named vatted malts, designed to epitomise the characteristics of Scotland's whisky regions.
The Old Particular series from Douglas Laing includes hand-selected single malt and grain whiskies sourced over the length and breadth of Scotland. These malts are unchill filtered and bottled straight from the cask without any colour
TASTING NOTES
Nose: An oak spiciness developing to toasted marshmallow, buttery biscuits and sweet barley
Palate: Warming with a woody spiced quality plus autumn fruits and a slightly sweet earthy style
Finish: Long with fresh red fruits, a touch of spice alongside creamy caramel candy (CSL)
About Blair Athol...
A member of the ‘nutty-spicy’ camp which defined the old Bell’s distilleries, Blair Athol takes the first part of the descriptor to its boldest expression.
Cloudy worts and a short fermentation time give the nutty base, but it is distillation which adds real weight to the distillate. A controlled level of solids coming across in the wash still add a rich, deep, malt-loaf character to the new make. It is this character which allows it to show so well in ex-Sherry, although for blending purposes the majority of the make is destined for ex-Bourbon.
The central Perthshire town of Pitlochry sits on the banks of the River Tay and has had a distillery since 1798, making its plant one of the oldest legal whisky-making sites in Scotland. The original distillery was named Aldour after the burn which supplied it with process water, but changed its name to Blair Athol [after a village seven miles to the north] in 1825. This could conceivably have been to sweeten the Duke of Athol who owned the land
It became part of the Peter Mackenzie blending house in 1886, but like many distilleries suffered during the economic troubles of the 1930s and fell silent between 1932 and 1949. In the interim period however Mackenzie (and its estate, which also included Dufftown distillery) had been bought by Perth-based blender, Arthur Bell & Sons.
By the 1970s, Bell’s was being built into the UK’s top-selling blended Scotch and, as a result, Blair Athol was doubled in capacity. Guinness (which bought Bell’s in 1985, and after further mergers evolved into Diageo) opened a visitor’s centre in 1987.
In an attempt to tap into the then infant single malt market, Bell’s bottled it as an eight-year-old in the 1980s, but in the Diageo era it has only appeared as a member of the Flora & Fauna range (at 12 years of age), matured in first-fill ex-Sherry casks.
52.1% ABV
70cl
| Specification name | Specification Value |
|---|---|
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
| Whiskey style | Single malt |
| Whiskey variety | Scotch |
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