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Distillery : The Balvenie - Speyside
2d and 3rd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrels, Sherry European Butts Finish
Original Bottling
Core Range
Single Malt
Launched in 2012
Peated around 6 ppm
To celebrate fifty years of work at The Balvenie, David Stewart, the distillery's cellar master, is returning to the bottling that made him such a success, the 12-year-old DoubleWood. This time, however, he is proposing to extend the maturation period to 17 years, giving it greater depth and a higher alcohol content.
Let's Taste It :
Attractive and light red fruits, grapes, elastic, leather, prune, this nose is fuller than the 12-year-old and more marked by the sherry. In the background, vanilla, mirabelle and lemon. A tiny touch of peat to cement it all together. Fruity palate with plum, more on damson, sunburnt blackberry, dried fig and aniseed biscuit. Various spices, not too strong, nutmeg, paprika. Quite a long finish, earthy but also fruity, heather earth, rich and heady aromas, almost vinous.
In Short,
It's much richer than the 12-year-old, and from that point of view it's a success. However, the price seems rather extravagant.
Score : 85
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm no Good
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