Balvenie 17 Years Old Peated
Single Malt - Scotland - 41.90% 8 A well balanced and rich whisky. Perfect after dinner dram with a piece of dark chocolate.

The Balvenie 10 Years Old, Founder's Reserve
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 The most honeyish of Speyside malts?

The Balvenie 12 Years Old, Double Wood
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 9 Yet richer, and fruitier.

The Balvenie 12 Years Old, Double Wood
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Delicious.

The Balvenie 15 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.40% 8 A very interesting whisky, but the distillery character is better served with a dash of sherry.

The Balvenie 15 Years Old Single Barrel
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.40% 8 Certainly robust. Perhaps a little harsh?

The Balvenie 17 Years Old Rum Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.00% 7 Poised and balanced.

The Balvenie 17 Years Old Sherry Oak
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 7 Good but the oak has leaned a little too heavily on the expressiveness of the whisky.

The Balvenie 17 Years Old, New Wood
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Attractive in the glass, with a pleasant nose, rich in dessert notes, but is let down by a slight astringency in the palate.

The Balvenie 1968
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.80% 8 Tasting from the cask resulted in slightly different descriptors whereas these notes were based on a sample sent to Whisky Magazine.

The Balvenie 1970 Vintage Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 44.60% 9 Extraordinarily distinctive. All the characteristics I expect in Balvenie, but I have never experienced them in such a concentrated intensity.

The Balvenie 1972 Vintage Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 49.40% 9 The ultimate dessert dram. Beautifully composed.

The Balvenie 1972 Vintage Cask
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.30% 8 This oozes class and, for me, is streets ahead of everything else in this group.

The Balvenie 21 Years Old PortWood
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 9 The full, honeyed, richness of the malt combines beautifully with what seems to be a generous kiss of port.

The Balvenie 25 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.90% 8 A very sophisticated malt. Beautifully combined flavours.

The Balvenie 25 Years Old, Single Barrel
Single Malt - Scotland - 46.90% 8 Seemed a little lighter all round than I remember.

The Balvenie 30 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.30% 8 This expression wears its years well.

The Balvenie Double Wood
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 0 A class act and a finish which works.

The Balvenie Islay Cask, 17 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 43.00% 8 Reminiscent of the days when Speysiders were peatier.

The Balvenie PortWood 1989
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 7 Not the depth of the PortWood 21 Years Old, but thoroughly enjoyable.

The Balvenie PortWood 21 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Bring on the petits-fours.

The Balvenie PortWood 21 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 This expression beautifully highlights the qualities of The Balvenie as a whisky that is full of rich flavours yet gentler and less robust than, for example, Glenfarclas or The Macallan.

The Balvenie Roasted malt Aged 14 Years
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.10% 8 Give this time and you'll find a delicious dram.

The Balvenie Rum Wood
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.10% 7 A disappointment after the class of the 1972.

The Balvenie Rumwood 14 Years Old
Single Malt - Scotland - 47.10% 8 A rich whisky which has taken some exotic and sensuous notes from the rum. Stiffens up on the finish.

The Balvenie Signature
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 8 Best neat and further proof of Balvenie's premier league status.

The Balvenie Tun 401 Batch Two
Single Malt - Scotland - 50.60% 8 A drop of water really brings this whisky together.

The Balvenie Vintage Cask 1967
Single Malt - Scotland - 40.00% 9 A beautifully balanced classic Speyside whisky.