Balvenie 1972 20 Year Old First Cask

Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask

The nose is sweet and fruity. On the palate, rich, spicy, and dark fruit is strong, followed by rum soaked bread (dense christmas cake). Old wood, seaweed, and dark chocolate remain for the finish. Dark, rich, complex, and wonderful. Pretty much on par with the 17 Year Madeira Cask, just darker with a little less spice.

Score 94/100

Balvenie 12 Year Old DoubleWood

The Balvenie Double Wood opens up with a rich, warming aroma full of red dried fruit sweetness. Further nosing lets you discover some apple and makes you hungry for a piece of rum-filled cake. You could keep on nosing for minutes before taking the first sip, and to be honest this is when you reach the climax of this dram. Where the nose is quite...

Score 70/100

Balvenie 15 Year Old

I figured I had to get around to Balvenie sooner or later, although I regarded it as something of a risk. "Get a good one and it's great, but it's a very inconsistent label," seemed the consensus. So in choosing my first Balvenie, I settled on a well-regarded expression, with the knowledge that I was tossing the dice with a single-cask...

Score 81/100

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