Review #62: Bladnoch 21yr, 1991/2012, The Whiskyman and The Bonding Dram, 52.9%, 119 bottles

distilled by the previous owners

I'm still searching for the perfect Bladnoch, so let's see if this one is it.

nose: sharp and grassy, but also sweet and candied. not much in between. Wet clay, chamomile, lemons and pears, cotton linen. Maybe some pineapple and banana. The fruit bounces around between malic and citric and something tropical. A wisp of smoke.

palate: wow, all over the place. Very intense toasted oak juice and vanilla, linseed oil, waves of sweet fruit, zesty but really a lot of oak. Finish is more of the same. Oak is very drying.

Very good intensity and development. It seems vibrant and mature at the same time, but the oak at the end hurts it for me. I'm not sure it suits this profile well.

still available from The Bonding Dram.

score: 86