Scotland's most southerly working distillery has an echoing connection with Northern Ireland. Built in 1817, the distillery as sold in 1911 by the founding McLelland family to the Belfast based whisky merchant Dunville & Co., who made their own whiskey in Ireland but were in need of stocks of Scotch to fulfil customer demand. Unfortunately ... Read More »
A new (as of 2011) edition of Bladnoch's excellent 10 year old, this time with a bit more oomph at 55%. Expect a classic lowland with a nice bit of fruit.
A single cask release from Lowland independent distillery Bladnoch, distilled in 2001 and aged for 11 years in sherry butt #281. This is even more different to regular Bladnoch by being lightly peated, for a touch of smoke with the sherry cask flavours.
The first ever Bladnoch in our Single Malts of Scotland range is a delicate, medium-bodied dram from the 1992 vintage that needs a few minutes to open up and unfurl its citrussy, grassy flavours.
A 1990 vintage Bladnoch from veteran indie bottler Berry Brothers & Rudd, the oldest family owned spirits and wine merchant in the world. This was distilled a few years before the then owners United Distillers mothballed the distillery and a decade before its more recent rebirth.
A Connoisseurs Choice bottling of independent Lowlander Bladnoch. This is from the 1993 vintage and has been bottled at 43% from refill sherry hogsheads.
A 1992 vintage, single cask whisky by Bladnoch. This has been matured for 18 years in a Sherry Butt and then bottled at the standard strength for Douglas Laing's Old Malt Cask series (50%).
Plucky Lowlander, a bit more weighty than most. The Bladnoch distillery is now under new ownership - this Flora & Fauna effort was the last Diageo bottling.