This Balblair 2005 for The Whisky Exchange might not be very singular, and yet you don't encounter these kind of straightforward, well executed whiskies very often. Does that make sense?
With Glenrothes aborting the use of vintage statements after the most recent redesign of their core range, Balblair is now the pre-eminent distillery still using vintages.
There's so much to like about Balblair. The distillery is beautiful, their use of vintages instead of ages (or NAS) is laudable, and they don't chill-filter or colour their whisky.
For whatever reason, Balblair never really managed to get met interested, so it wasn't till a couple of months ago that I tasted my first. And it was at the best place you can taste any whisky: at their respective distillery.