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15th January 2024 |
Review of
Bladnoch distillery's Classic Collection
core range Bladnoch Samara.
 Bladnoch
Samsara is one of three Bladnoch Classic
Collection whiskies which I am reviewing in for
Burns Night. Rabbie Burns, the national
poet of Scotland, was born on 25 January
1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland and
spent his final years in Dumfries not
far from Bladnoch distillery, if Burns
was alive today I am sure given his love
of Scotch whisky there is a good chance
he may have celebrated his birthday with
a a few drams from Bladnoch.
Bladnoch Samsara is part of the
distillery's Classic Collection core
range and is a blend of Bladnoch single
malts matured in ex Bourbon and ex
Californian red wine casks and has been
bottled non-chill filtered, naturally
coloured at 46.7% ABV.
Samsara, meaning ‘rebirth’, is a rather
apt name for the dram given the
distillery's rebirth in recent years.
William
Morrison's
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Creamy
sweet vanilla and a bouquet of ripe red
berries and some distant red Gala apple.
Taste: Absolutely
delicious sugar sweet boosted vanilla
toffee with a grassy edge leads the
charge closely followed by some plum and
gentle apricot jam, with a sweet almond
edge, the Gala apples from the nose and
some lovely gentle oak spices.
Finish: A
deliciously long finish, the sweet
vanilla toffee lingers a while before
bittering out, the
apricot and apple and some late lemon
citrus bows out and the now slightly
drying gentle oak spices hang in there
to have the final say.
Comment:
The delicious sweetness bitters out
somewhat at the end, still a very
enjoyable dram, some quality casks are
at play here. The ratio of
ex Bourbon and ex Californian red wine
casks selected by Bladnoch whisky maker,
Master Distiller, Dr Nick Savage has
made it a dram which would pair
extremely well with a Cranachan desert
or indeed any desert at a Burns Supper.
SMW Whisky Score
88/100
You will find this and the current
Bladnoch whisky range available fspan>rom specialist online whisky
shops such as
The Whisky Exchange
and
Master of Malt
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