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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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May 18, 2018 |
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Sometimes you need a little lightness, not only heavy peaters, sherry monsters, and assorted heavily coastal or phenolic drams. The Midlander Blair Athol’s usually a good candidate… |
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Blair Athol 2008/2017 (46%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice) 
Young age, good price, good hopes. Colour: gold. Nose: really classic, delicately nutty and malty, with overripe apples and various cakes, plus whiffs of autumn leaves. You could pour a few drops of this into any cappuccino… Or to make a Scottish coffee? Mouth: malty, rather solid, starting with roasted nuts and a little praline, getting then rather leafy, with also a little burnt caramel. Gets then a little peppery and slightly bitter (beer), but I’m also finding more butterscotch. Finish: medium, with a wee sulphury side, otherwise more roasted nuts and quite a lot of malted barley. Golden Grahams. Comments: extremely fair and loyal. Good for showing your new friends what good natural malt whisky is.
SGP:451 - 81 points. |
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Blair Athol 15 yo 2002/2017 (48.4%, Douglas Laing, Old Particular, refill hogshead, cask #12106, 357 bottles)
Colour: white wine. Nose: this one’s much more grassy and leafy, there’s some fresh concrete, whiffs of new plastic pouches, new sneakers, and only then some gentler toasted and barley-y notes, plus wee hints of fruit candies. 7up, then porridge and muesli. A little bizarre, so far… Mouth: ah, much better than expected, with quite a lot of butterscotch, orange drops, notes of cooked asparagus and maybe even salsify, sweet potato, café latte, carrot cake… A little cinchona too… An unusual style that rather works. Finish: medium and rather more peppery. Seville oranges plus pepper in the aftertaste. Comments: a tad challenging at times, but really interesting – and I’m not being PC.
SGP:461 - 81 points. |
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Blair Athol 15 yo 2001/2016 (54.6%, Cadenhead, Small Batch, sherry hogshead, 300 bottles) 
It seems that a lot of bottles found their way to Taiwan. Colour: gold. Nose: I know it’s sherry but it starts as a bourbon, with fine touches of varnish, some vanilla, and traces of grated coconut. Seriously, this is almost bourbon, I am not dreaming… Some butterscotch too, wee whiffs of violet candies, and I’d even dare claiming that I’m finding notes of rye. With water: pecan pie and maple syrup! Mouth: seriously, bourbon, bourbon, bourbon! Then notes of ham, custard, fudge sundae, caramel macchiato… Some very good bourbon, at that… With water: excellent. Praline, vanilla fudge, and even more butterscotch. Finish: rather long, with some shortbread, brioche, and custard. Hints of violet candies in the aftertaste. Comments: what is this magic? Can we have a picture of the hoggie’s head? (no, please don’t, I’m joking)…
SGP:551 - 88 points. |
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