Balvenie 15 Year Old Bottled 1990s

Balvenie 15 Year Old

Nose: Anjou pear, wild onion, honey comb, slight hints of Pappy Van Winkle 20, summer air down by the deserted railroad tracks in summertime near the Willamette River when your nose is young and keen, your blood is flowing strong, and your whole life is ahead of you, along with fossils to be dug in the flakey sandstone on both sides of you, with a...

Score 88/100

Balvenie 10 Year Old Founder's Reserve

The Balvenie 10 yr. old Founder's Reserve is a malt which has been recently discontinued. I did manage to buy a bottle within the last 4 months. Some time ago this was my first malt whisky, and I must say that I fell in love with it. The 10 yr Founder's Reserve combines malt matured only in bourbon casks with malt matured only in sherry casks...

Score 87/100

Balvenie 17 Year Old DoubleWood

The Balvenie DoubleWood 17 yr is the bigger brother to the 12 yo. The spirit is matured in ex bourbon barrels then ex sherry casks. The American oak imparts the vanilla and the closer grained European oak give more spiciness and the sherry influence as well. The nose is (as one would expect) woody. Its fragrant with vanilla, honey and sherry. The...

Score 88/100

Balvenie 17 Year Old DoubleWood

In a couple of earlier reviews, I had some less-than-positive comments about Balvenie, and I now wish I could edit those reviews to qualify my opinions. In short, the first three Balvenie expressions I tried left me underwhelmed. The next three I tried...well, maybe they weren’t over-the-moon experiences, but they were good enough to make me raise...

Score 88/100