The Balvenie Rum Wood Tasting notes and reviews
The Balvenie Rum Wood
- Brand
- The Balvenie
- Expression
- Rum Wood
- Type
- Scotch Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Abv
- 47.10%
- Produced at
- Balvenie Distillery
- Region
- Speyside
- Website
- www.thebalvenie.com
- Availability
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Dave Broom
72- Nose
- Quite plain and oaky: cigar box, pine flooring, dry bracken, sweetening into sponge cake, date. With water a lightly doughy note and a hint of cold green tea.
- Palate
- Sweet...then dry...then sweet. Spreads well initially but becomes rather dull and flat.
- Finish
- Custard and then spice. Woodsmoke.
- Comment
- A disappointment after the class of the 1972.
Arthur Motley
75- Nose
- Orange liqueur sweetness and a sweet chlorine. Orange peel and banana. With water a little more sherbety, then grassiness, vanilla and blossom. More baked banana.
- Palate
- Lots of bourbon cask character, with toasted oak and vanilla.
- Finish
- More US oak and a burnt twig bitterness.
- Comment
- The overall experience was harmed by the bitterness.
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