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The Balvenie 15 years old Single Barrel Tasting note

By Miguel in Tasting , Recommended , The Balvenie

“Where have you been all these years?! A reason to live!”

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Balvenie 15 year Single Barrel
The Balvenie Single Barrel Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a 15 year old single malt which is drawn from a single bourbon cask of a single distillation.

Each cask forms a limited edition of hand-numbered bottles - there will be a maximum of 350 bottles from any one cask - so each bottle is unique and unrepeatable.

Each cask is subtly different, however, The Balvenie Malt Master selects for bottling only those casks that have the essential characteristics of The Balvenie Single Barrel - particularly honey, vanilla and oaky notes.

This dram has a gold-like color.

Nose (92): strong. biscuits, honey, vanilla, a little cinnamon.

Palate (93): oily, powerful. peaches, honey, wood, tobacco, vanilla, a little nuts. Very good taste.

Finish (90): very long. peaches, wood, honey, tobacco.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Balvenie 15 year Single Barrel with 92 points over 100.

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The Balvenie 12 years old Signature Tasting note

By Miguel in Tasting , Recommended , The Balvenie

“Excellent nose with a great taste. Just a 6% more of alcohol, or ejem bottled at cask strength and this would have been "my" whisky for the rest of my life.”

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Balvenie 12 year Signature
This 12 year old Balvenie was released in 2008 and was launched to replace the 10 year old Founders Reserve.

This bottling was aged in first fill bourbon barrels, refill casks and sherry butts.

Balvenie Signature is a small batch version of Doublewood with have additional been matured in bourbon casks. Rather good whisky by it is missing a bit more alcohol...

This dram has a gold-like color.

Nose (93): strong. biscuits, honey, vanilla, citrus, floral.

Palate (90): smooth. fruity, candies, honey, vanilla, floral, citrus. Bottled at cask strength this would have been a crack.

Finish (89): long. floral, citrus, honey.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Balvenie 12 year Signature with 91 points over 100.

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The Balvenie 12 years old Doublewood Tasting note

By Miguel in Tasting , Recommended , The Balvenie

“Lovely sherried whisky with a nice amount of nuts and biscuits in its nose. I have really enjoyed this one.”

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Balvenie 12 year Doublewood
The Balvenie Doublewood Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a 12 year old single malt which gains its distinctive character from being matured in two woods.

During its period of maturation The Balvenie Doublewood is transferred from a traditional oak whisky cask to a first fill Spanish oak sherry cask.

Each stage lends different qualities to the resulting single malt - the traditional casks, having previously held bourbon, soften and add character, whilst the sherry wood brings depth and fullness of flavor.

This is the most basic bottle from Balvenie and still awesome!
TODO: Check if strength is 40% or 0%

This dram has a amber-like color.

Nose (91): more than average. nuts, honey, citrus, toffee, biscuits. Smells like a fino sherried matured whisky. Very nice nose.

Palate (91): powerful, oily. honey, floral, citrus, nuts, wood, spices.

Finish (90): longer than average. honey, nuts, wood.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Balvenie 12 year Doublewood with 91 points over 100.

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Monkey Shoulder Tasting note

By Miguel in Tasting , Monkey Shoulder , Glenfiddich , The Balvenie , Kininvie
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Monkey Shoulder Triple Malt
A blended Scotch from William Grant, Monkey Shoulder features a proportion of whisky from Kininvie, Balvenie and Glenfiddich.

This dram has a white-like color.

Nose (88): inexistent. sweet, spices, vanilla, mango, wood, sherry. First nosing data is innacurate as the previous tasting sheet lacked of this field.

Palate (92): . sweet, spicy, tobacco, honey, vanilla, wood. Bouquet data is innacurate as the previous tasting sheet lacked of this field.

Finish (84): no finish. honey, spicy, wood. Finish length is innacurate as the previous tasting sheet lacked of this field.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Monkey Shoulder Triple Malt with 88 points over 100.

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