Balvenie 1974 Single Barrel

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Balvenie
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1974
Bottled Year	2003
Age	25년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	46.9%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Speyside

Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Honey

Fruity

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Spicy

Nutty

Floral

Herbal

Citrus

Chocolate

Smoky

Peaty

Maritime

Tasting Notes

Colour

amber

air Nose

ah, this one is much fresher again, not too far from cask #686-687. Beautifully floral and fragrant, markedly winey and also very fruity: perhaps it’s the most balanced of them all. Caramel cream, praline, apricot jam, butter cream… Notes of pastry, fresh cookies, roasted peanuts. The sherry is very refined and elegant… Whiffs of pu-her tea, quinquina, bitter orange, and even ginger. It simply has everything (except peat and smoke, that is)

restaurant Palate

oh yes, this one is my favourite, by far. It has much more vivacity than its brothers, and much more oomph. An Aston when the others were Cadillacs! The attack is very nervous, yet creamy, with lots of fruit jam and fruit liquors (mainly mirabelles, plums). Crystallised orange, leather, light tobacco… Even hints of eucalyptus and beeswax. Superb! There is a lot of sherry, obviously, but the latter didn’t overwhelm the whisky at all. Ah, now there are some funny hints of ginger tonic together with a tiny little metallic taste towards the very long and so nicely balanced finish. Wow! This one is meant to get bottled in 2008, but I would advise the owner to check whether it doesn’t get more tannic in the coming months/years, because I find it to be perfect just like it is. Hence my 93 points , by the way… (thanks, Luc!) MUSIC - 1999: kitsch but hip, Tom Jones and The Divine Comedy did Portishead's All Mine (mp3) and made it sound even more Kurt Weill-esque. Heavy, sir, but the voices, the voices! (From Tom Jones' album 'Reload') February 8, 2005 MUSIC - Oldies but goldies: 1974, Captain Beefheart sings JJ Cale's Same old blues - mp3 . That was on the 'Bluejeans & Moonbeams' album. Not as crazy as some of the Captains' other works but I still like it. A lot! Please buy The Captain's music if you like it... By the way, he just turned 64 in January, so, a belated 'happy birthday Don!'. TASTING - TWO OTHER BALVENIES H2H Balvenie 25 yo 1974/2000 ‘Single Barrel’ (46.9%, OB, cask #10152) A bottle Davin purchased in Panama

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