The Balvenie 12 Years Old, Double Wood Tasting notes and reviews
The Balvenie 12 Years Old, Double Wood
- Brand
- The Balvenie
- Expression
- 12 Years Old, Double Wood
- Type
- Scotch Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Age
- 12 years old
- Abv
- 43.00%
- Produced at
- Balvenie Distillery
- Region
- Speyside
- Website
- www.thebalvenie.com
- Availability
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Michael Jackson
90- Nose
- Sherry and orange skins.
- Palate
- Beautifully combined mellow flavours: nutty, sweet, sherry, very orangy fruitiness, heather, cinnamon spiciness.
- Finish
- Long, tingling. Very warming.
- Comment
- Yet richer, and fruitier.
Jim Murray
90- Nose
- A close relation to the Founder's Reserve, with extra vanilla and honey plus the subtlest of Oloroso influences. Delicate for its age.
- Palate
- Sweet and honeyed with intense malt meeting the soft peat and controlled sherry fruitiness.
- Finish
- Smoky and a little spicy with a bigger vanilla tang.
- Comment
- A more intense malt than the Founder's Reserve. Despite its finesse, it is just shaded in regard to all-round complexity. Still nothing short of glorious.
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Published June 1999.
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