Monkey Shoulder x BlockBar Batch 27
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Balvenie |
| Bottler | William Grant & Sons (WG&S) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2022 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | Bourbon |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
very nice at first nosing, not extraordinarily expressive but rather complex. Notes of marzipan and walnuts, quite waxy. No obvious peat right at the start but it comes through after one or two minutes (somewhat in the Ardmore genre) and grows stronger. Notes of fermenting hay, cut grass, horse stable, eucalyptus and camphor (tiger balm). Fir tree honey, parsley, wax, stone dust… Various kinds of smoke after a moment, smoked ham... Complex indeed, very phenolic and very enjoyable
restaurant Palate
quite bold and powerful attack, very grassy, waxy and quite cardboardy. Pepper, over infused tea, burnt caramel… A little feinty as well. Very little sweetness or fruitiness. Gets more and more resinous and waxy but always enjoyable, even if the palate is a little less complex and interesting than the nose. A very unusual and uncommon malt that’s very good as well, for once (ha, Dunglass!) It does deserve 90 points in my books. Latest news (October 6): contrarily to what's wirtten on the labels, Craigduff was distilled at Glen Keith, not Strathisla, according to Signatory. MUSIC – Jazz - Highly recommended listening: he played with Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry or Steve Lacy – which says a lot: rare French drummer Jacques Thollot delivers one of his own, very poetic compositions, La maison des cellettes.mp3 (from the album Tenga Nina). Pretty excellent stuff, if you ask me. Please, please, buy Jacques Thollot’s music! October 3, 2005 PETE McPEAT AND JACK WASHBACK TASTING - TWO OFFICIAL BALVENIES Balvenie 1991 'PortWood' (40%, OB, 2004)
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