Gordon & Macphail - Balblair

[ct67]

Question...
Is the Balblair sold in the USA in Gordon & Macphail packaging the same as the Balblair sold in the UK? (In the much nicer packaging and bottle)
Thanks,
ct

[mongo]

you'll have to be more specific than that: age, vintage, abv, type of wood, name of range etc..

[ct67]

That's the problem, the G&M packaging basically doesn't say anything other than 10 year old Balblair... If I google, the Scottish Balblair has real nice packaging, tasting notes etc etc etc.... I'm just wondering if the liquid inside is the same or if Balblair sells to G&M and then G&M changes it in anyway...

[mongo]

whichever g&m 10yo this is it is a different expression than whatever official version you're seeing in the u.k. both are whisky from the balblair distillery but they may have very little else in common. the g&m version may be from a single cask, it may be from a different combination of cask types etc. etc..

[bpbleus]

I think that, in general. the same G&M 'bulk' bottlings (i.e., vattings of multiple casks) are marketed in the US and EU.

[Johnny Murgatroyd]

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I think what ct67 means is: is the Gordon & McPhail independent bottling of Balblair 10 yo the same thing as the (distillery bottling) official Balblair 10 yo.

The answer is No, they are likely entirely different. Independent bottlers buy casks of single malts from the distillery and bottle them independently; the result is usually radically different sometimes better, sometimes the reverse.

[kallaskander]

Hi there,

if you are talking about this

http://www.gordonandmacphail.com/distil ... 3-136.html

it would be helpful to compare it with that

http://www.connosr.com/whisky/highland/ ... -year-old/

as nowadays the 10yo is more like this

http://www.connosr.com/whisky/highland/balblair/

the newest one being a 2001 vintage bottled 2011

Greetings
kallaskander

[ct67]

Exactly what I meant... Next guy posted the exact 2 Balblairs I am talking about...

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I think what ct67 means is: is the Gordon & McPhail independent bottling of Balblair 10 yo the same thing as the (distillery bottling) official Balblair 10 yo.

The answer is No, they are likely entirely different. Independent bottlers buy casks of single malts from the distillery and bottle them independently; the result is usually radically different sometimes better, sometimes the reverse.

[ct67]

THIS is the one I found in a store by me...

http://www.gordonandmacphail.com/distil ... 3-136.html

The link below is the one I want and was wondering if G&M above is the same liquid in the bottle as the link and liquid in the bottle below... Sorry for any confusion...

http://www.connosr.com/whisky/highland/balblair/

the newest one being a 2001 vintage bottled 2011

Greetings
kallaskander[/quote]

[bpbleus]

I think that, in general. the same G&M 'bulk' bottlings (i.e., vattings of multiple casks) are marketed in the US and EU.

THIS IS FALSE A chap at G&M wrote me:

"As regards CC bottles for USA - these are unique for USA due to the 75cl bottle size.
Therefore any bottlings available in USA will be from different casks and vattings from those available in the rest of the world. "

So, it seems only DT markets some bottlings in both the US and the EU

[RegularChumpington]

THIS is the one I found in a store by me...

http://www.gordonandmacphail.com/distil ... 3-136.html

The link below is the one I want and was wondering if G&M above is the same liquid in the bottle as the link and liquid in the bottle below... Sorry for any confusion...

http://www.connosr.com/whisky/highland/balblair/

the newest one being a 2001 vintage bottled 2011

Greetings
kallaskander

[/quote]

The G&M bottling and the Balblair are similar in that they start with the same distillate. Beyond that they are different products. Same as a 12 YO Connoisseur's Choice Caol Ila is not the same as the distillery edition. IB's. Love 'em. Drink as many as you can.