Day 19 we are in the back row and the end is near but not the fun. Today we have a dram from a independent bottler who is just plain fun in name as well as style. Don’t let there bad design stills fool you this is good whisky. Taste and we are sure you will agree
Profile
Blackadder is an independent bottler of single malt Scotch whisky. It was founded in 1995 by Robin Tucek and John Lamond, and named after historic Scottish figure Bishop John Blackadder. The company’s bottlings are generally from single casks, are neither chill-filtered nor colored, and are bottled in clear glass to allow customers to see the natural color of the whisky.
Bottling series offered by Blackadder include the standard single-cask single malt whiskies, the “Limited Edition” range, the sherry-cask “Old Man of Hoy”, the “Auld Edinburgh” range, and two alternate labelings used in place of the Blackadder name: “Aberdeen Distillers” and “The Clydesdale Original Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd.”
Since 2000, Blackadder has also offered the “Raw Cask” series, which consists of whisky bottled directly from the cask, without even mechanical filtering. The lack of filtering leaves some detritus in the bottles including fragments of cask wood.
In 2014 Blackadder introduced a range of whiskies called Black Snake. These whiskies are produced using a Solera system, where aged single malts are placed into either an Oloroso or PX Sherry cask for further aging. When deemed ready, 2/3 of the cask is drawn to be bottled and the cask is replenished with more single malt for further maturation. Each draw for bottling is known as a “Venom”.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Fresh cut apples and pears, caramelized bananas, sweet malty vanilla and a light note of toasted wood.
Taste: At full strength, it’s full-bodied with an almost creamy texture. Big, “fancy” fruit salad flavours of mandarin oranges, caramelized bananas along with apples and pears drizzled in waxy honey.
FInish: Medium long and fruity with loads of honey and a touch a oaky vanilla.
Purchase Links
Can be purchased from the Strath