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Blair Athol 20 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Particular 1995 Single Sherry Cask DL10890 Norway Exclusive for Uisge Beatha (2016) 70cl
This marvellous sherried Blair Athol was bottled for Uisge Beatha's 20th Anniversary. Uisge Beatha is one of the most prominent whisky clubs in Norway.
This cask was selected together with Fred Laing and Jaerens Aeveridge.
One of the best whiskies in a sherry cask is a good Blair Athol. Owned by Diageo, it gives a palate of dryness, milk chocolate, raisins, dates and figs, old oak & brown sugar that is immensely enjoyable. For those familiar with an aged Blair-Athol they will know it well. For those who do not, this is the start of a new love for those who are of that sherry camp.
TASTING NOTES
Aroma: Charming with dried fruits: pressed apple and fresh squeezed lime infuse with banana, dried apricot, ; hints of vanilla, dried raisins, and cocoa powder remain.
Taste: Dry, smoked melon, nectarine, and banana abound. Red apple emerges and transforms into milk chocolate subtly highlighted by hints of oak.
Finish: Long and intricate with bursts of pepper and mature oak.
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.
51.5% ABV
70cl
| Specification name | Specification Value |
|---|---|
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Highlands |
| Whiskey style | Single malt |
| Whiskey variety | Scotch |
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