Christmas cake, dried fruits, raisins, dates, orange peel, walnuts, cinnamon, baked apples, buttery toast — rich sherried Highland
Juicy fresh apples, bitter orange zest, toffee, butterscotch, marzipan, stewed apple, digestive biscuits
Long, drying oak with hints of BBQ smoke — the sherry leaving its lasting signature
Blair Athol 12 F&F — Bell's heart. 1798 Pitlochry. Bourbon + first-fill sherry. 43%.
Christmas cake nose. Toffee and digestive palate. Long drying smoky oak finish. Sherried Highland highlight.
Blair Athol 12 earns a 7.5 — Christmas pudding in a glass at £58. The sherried highlight of the F&F series.
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