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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.
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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?
8.3
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Reviewing a young Balblair 2012 from independent bottler Kintra, which matured for 8 years in a refill sherry hogshead.
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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.
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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.
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Sample 11 turned out to be a Balblair. I guessed Glenmorangie, so at least geographically I was very close.
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Who is up for a Balblair? Let's have a closer look at the Balblair 1999, released in 2014 as a Travel Retail exclusive.
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What is Balblair's identity now? The loss of vintages is a big one, I feel. Hopefully the juice of this new age statement release makes up for it.
