Balvenie 15-year-old Single Barrel - Traditional Oak

CategorySINGLE MALT
DistilleryBalvenie
BottlerDistillery Bottling
Bottling Series-
Vintage1998
Bottled Year2013
Age15년
Cask TypeRefill Bourbon Barrel
Cask Number-
Bottles Released-
ABV47.8%
Volume700 ml
Label-
CountryScotland
RegionSpeyside
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Flavor Profile

Oaky
Vanilla
Sweet
Honey
Fruity
Creamy
Dried Fruit
Floral
Spicy
Nutty
Citrus
Herbal
Chocolate
Smoky
Maritime
Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

straw

air Nose

indeed, this has more tropical fruits, a little more vanilla and even coconut, as well as more butter, while the background is rather similar to that of the IB. Small berries, mirabelles, apples, touch of earl grey. Its rather fascinating to experience this feeling of just a layer of wood having been added over a malt whisky. You cannot not think of some Meursaults from the 2000s vintages (when oak was still fashionable). Or there, Parkerised wines

restaurant Palate

much, much less differences on the palate, this time it’s almost the same whisky, with the same kind of tartness, plums, apricots, apples. But indeed there is a little vanilla cake. Very fine, just oakier – and yet it’s not oaky whisky at all

timer Finish

long and just as creamy as the IB. Coconut, vanilla and mirabelles., a little muscat and apples in the aftertaste

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