Balmenach 1983 27 Year Old Old Malt Cask #0000

Balmenach 11 Year Old 2010 The Whisky Mercenary & ‘t Parlement 10th Anniversary

The Whisky Mercenary – Belgian bottler – and 't Parlement – fantastic whisky café in Halle – both celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2022 and therefore decided to release a whisky together. Apologies: two whiskies! A Balmenach and an Ardmore. In my glass is the first, so of the joint bottling #1, being a young Balmenach that looks particularly...

Score 82/100

Balmenach 28 Year Old 1983 A.D. Rattray

I will end this session of Balmenach with a 28 Year Old bottled by A.D. Rattray in 2012. I am comparing it to a sister cask released by Bladnoch Forum. Both casks were single bourbon hogsheads of Balmenach 1983. Frangipane pie on the nose, which also reveals white and yellow fruit. Cardemom and cinnamon from the spice rack. Sweet and malty. Very...

Score 86/100

Balmenach 8 Year Old 2004 Gordon & Macphail Connoisseurs Choice

Balmenach is one of those noble unknown distilleries for the simple fact that the produce almost exclusively for the blenders. You can hardly find it as a single malt. So we have to look at the independent bottlers. Let us start with this G&M Connoisseurs Choice, which means it is bottled at 46% ABV. The nose is fairly sweet, but with a weird...

Score 81/100

Balmenach 10 Year Old Douglas Laing

Founded in 1824 this Speyside distillery became one of the first legally run distilleries in Scotland. The original name was Balminoch originates from the Gaelic 'Am Baile Meadhnach' meaning 'the middle farm'. In 1987 the distillery was renamed Balmenach Glenlivet Distillery Company. In 1992, the first and only official in house bottling was...

Score 88/100