The Balvenie 15 Year Old Single Barrel

Product of: United Kingdom

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Drawn from an American oak ex-bourbon cask in which this single barrel Balvenie was aged for 15 years. Each cask yields a maximum of 350 bottles and the precise number, when the cask was filled, when the bottled was filled, and what number that bottle is, are all recorded on the label.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 29/10/2012

Appearance:

(casked 3-Oct-83, bottled 8-Aug-00, cask No.4605, bot No. 307) Clear, light golden.

Aroma:

Sweet barley, chamois leather, creamy vanilla, light spicy oak, toasted coconut and stewed pineapple, mixed dried fruit, light honey and faint anise.

Taste:

Malty and fresh sweet barley, nubuck leather and pear fruit with bitter orange zest, roast almonds and light spice.

Aftertaste:

Delicate cinnamon spice and mild oakyness.