Balvenie 40 Year Old Batch 1

Balvenie 17 Year Old DoubleWood

from a purchased sample Nose: A little bit richer than the 12 with all the same basic cereal, malt, honey, and ginger notes. Pepper and more resin than wax. Vanilla frosting. Powdered sugar. Green apple juice and something sour. A touch more fruit -- only a little. Raisin/golden grape. Not the most distinct. I'm getting more notes, but they're way...

Score 76/100

Balvenie 14 Year Old Peated Triple Cask

The Balvenie is a favorite distillery of mine, and of many others I know. They do have quite a few expressions in their core range, and travel range, all are of high quality, with some being plain ‘good, and yummy’ and others really lovely indeed. The last time i posted notes about a few Balvenies it was mainly of their high end, expensive and...

Score 88/100

Balvenie 15 Year Old

The Balvenie 15 Year Old Single Barrel Sherry Cask is matured exclusively in a European oak sherry butt for at least 15 years. According to the distillers at Balvenie, “Malt Master David Stewart hand selects each barrel for its flavor of dried fruits, nuts and spice. No more than 650 hand-numbered bottles are drawn from each sherry butt, making...

Score 92/100

Balvenie 10 Year Old Founder's Reserve

So we have recently done a Balvenie tasting pack of five different expressions. thought we would post our notes here. The Founder’s Reserve is first up. This was introduced as one of the standard Balvenie expressions in the eighties but was recently replaced by the Signature 12 year old. It is a combination of bourbon and sherry cask matured...

Score 89/100