Blair Athol 12 Year Old | Flora & FaunaHighland Single Malt Scotch WhiskyDistillery Bottling 70cl 43% Blair Athol is a distillery whose output generally never gets further than a big vat marked 'Bell's', but a small number of sherry casks are set aside for the distillery's only regular official bottling, the Flora & Fauna edition. Blair Athol 12 year old Flora & Fauna is a tantalising dram, certainly among the most interesting of that particular series, with the sherry casks enhancing and

Legend has it that CH&K bottled the best Macallans because they added small quantities of aged brandy to each batch

Series Replica 1876

A 1979 Glenlochy bottled 2015 by Gordon & MacPhail for their Rare Old series

Bottled by: Douglas Laing 70cl / 47

Lowland Malt Whisky

Crisp red apple notes emerge

a fresh oloroso sherry butt that yielded 567 bottles at its massive natural cask strength of 58

this is quite an emotional dram considering its age and rarity

On arrival

while this G&M bottling is by no means the greatest example

elegant oak & orange depths on the nose - with underlying rosehip

Bottle Size 70cl ABV 51