Balvenie Tun 1401 Batch 5
Batch 5
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Review by @Chookster
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To smell; Deep, dark, thick and dried fruits; Musty Cherry, plum, fig. Thick and syrupy nose. Feels like you’re in the warehouse with the maturing whisky.
Evolves at its own pace; cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate chip cookie dough, brown sugar, then other sweet baking notes. Soft coffee in the background. Light wood shavings. Every now and then a sweet spice makes its way to the front and forces an out-loud “oh my”. There’s also honey but it’s playing hide and seek.
To taste; full delivery, soft as a pillow, seduces the tongue with sherry chocolate, deep caramel, wood spice, and an assorted fruit basket that unravels like a flower blooming. It could be called a finish if the flavours ever subsided; it just goes on and on and on...
There's not much more to say. A Speyside veteran for the young'n's to aspire to.
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Additional info - Batch 5 is comprised of; * 3 American Oak Hogsheads: 1966, '72, '73 * 4 European Oak Butts: 1970, '71, '72, '75 * 2 American Oak Barrels: 1974, '91
Under the very general assumption that a barrel is half a hogshead which is half a butt (someone please inform me if i am grossly inaccurate with this assumption) the average age of the contents of this whisky is just shy of 40 years old, with a mix of 29% bourbon casks and 71% sherry casks.
Purchased for $275 AUD, though did retail for as low as $250 at one stage. Balvenie 30 retail price in Aus - $482 AUD. Balvenie 40 retail price in Aus - $3,777 AUD.