Bladnoch reviews

This will be my last review on Connosr, as tomorrow it will become a read-only site. In the lead-up to Passover (I seal my cabinet for the duration of the holiday and it ends on Tuesday, after the…

Back when the Armstrong brothers owned this Lowland distillery, I was a big fan. They released mostly single barrel bottlings of 10, 11 and 12 YO whisky, some lightly peated, mostly sherry cask matured…

Most of you reading this know that I have had a soft spot for Bladnoch since I tasted my first bottle of their 10 YO sherry-cask matured (Sheep label). In those days, I was whisky naïve and entranced…

I think it is now common knowledge, but I’ll say it again: I have a weakness for new make. So... when Joren passed by and offered a sample of Bladnoch, I was very pleasantly surprised, because I hadn't…

This 19 year old official release of Bladnoch was put together by Master Distiller Dr Nick Savage, who quit his job at Macallan four years ago to put this Lowland distillery back on the map. The malt…

Dr Nick Savage has been working as a Master Distiller at Bladnoch since 2018. If that name doesn't ring a bell: Savage is a former Master Distiller at Macallan! But four years ago he made a so-called…

This review is from a bottle I brought after I'd had a few sips from the sample of Bladnoch 10 kindly provided by @Timp. I decided to do a side by side between the 11 and the 10. The Bladnoch 11 is a…

This review is of a sample of the highly regarded Bladnoch 10 released in 2019 and now sadly no longer available. The sample was kindly provided by @Timp.NoseBest way I could describe this is it smells…

Bladnoch is another one of those distilleries that does not appear on my scope very often, but a while ago I got this sample of a 16 years old from 1992, bottled in 2009, but my buddy Manny. It’s a…

This is an official release from the period when the Armstrong brothers were in charge. Distilled in 2001, bottled in 2011 – so almost as long in the bottle than on the cask. Raymond and Colin clearly…