Aged exclusively in first-fill Pedro Ximnez sherry casks, Bladnoch 19 Year Old is a Lowland single malt Scotch whisky that reads far darker than its region suggests. Lowland malts usually lean toward grass and citrus; nineteen years of PX wood push this one into dark licorice, dried apricot, almond, and nutmeg, with a floral thread running underneath from the Galloway distillery in Scotland’s deep southwest. Bottled at 46.7%, the whisky keeps its shape neat, and the finish stays long on a dry sweetness rather than sherry syrup. Pour this single malt for the sherry-cask drinker who assumes the Lowlands can’t do dark it argues otherwise.