Balvenie reviews

Warm sweet slow arrival develops sweet and sour vegetal short smokeless soft finish.

Warm steady slow red fruit filled arrival develops a honey vanilla balanced slow bitter sweet sour finish.

­Nose – Sweet, confectionary, old sweet shop, oranges, currants, also some fresh pollen and slight floral notes, hints of wine and spices. With water, buttery corn and vanilla aromas emerge. ­Palate –…

This is batch #9sample from a friendNose: Ah, refreshing and rich. Mentholated honey. Sweet, and also strongly (and strangely?) herbal. Mint, sage, and thyme. Whiffs of vanilla and caster sugar, then a…

There's something about entry level Speysiders that has started to piss me off a bit. Seems like there's a formula everyone's using to create literally the same whisky. I mean I understand this is the…

Hot sweet and spicy arrival develops a warm thick long slow fruit loaded finish.

I would describe myself as a Balvenie fan. While I am not enamored of their Doublewood duo, or their 21YO, I quite like the various 17 YO finishes I have sampled (all too expensive to buy), love the Tun…

A fairly one dimensional malt this, but a very pleasant one. Nose: Fino sherry (very clean fruit) toffee and butter. Taste: Sherry toffee sweetness and a whiff of smoke. Finish: Finish is short with…

Homework continues, but now it's time to worship the spoon!What the hell you might be saying to yourself, what the hell is SquidgyAsh going on about, what's all this worship and hailing of the spoon?In…

Thanks Patrick. Deep rum gold pour, nano tears. Nose is mild, small orange peel, pretty fumey alcohol. Taste is a bit thinned out, spicy alcohol. Paper finish. No thanks.