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Type
Single Malt
Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Distillery
Balvenie
Bottling Series
Single Barrel
Vintage
1998
Stated Age
15 years-old
Bottled
2013
Outturn
300
Cask Number
1247
Strength
47.8% abv
Cask Type
1st Fill Bourbon Cask
Cask Strength
yes
Colouring
no
Single Cask
yes
Core Range
no
Flavour Profile
Almonds
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/almonds.png)
Black Pepper
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/black_pepper.png)
Butterscotch
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/butterscotch.png)
Cedar Wood
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/cedar_wood.png)
Coconut
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/coconut.png)
Cream
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/cream.png)
Grapefruit
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/grapefruit.png)
Grass
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/grass.png)
Hazelnut
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/hazelnut.png)
Honey
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/honey.png)
Lemon
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/lemon.png)
Malt
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/malt.png)
Milk Chocolate
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/milk_chocolate.png)
Oak
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/oak.png)
Orange
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/orange.png)
Pineapple
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/pineapple.png)
Tea Leaves
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/tea_leaves.png)
Vanilla
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/vanilla.png)
Wood Spice
![](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/malt-musketeers/media/assets/img/flavours/wood_spice.png)
Tasting Notes
Nose
As expected from Balvenie, a crisp and clear nose – perhaps slightly clinical. Freshly cut grass, pineapple chunks, hazelnuts, vanilla pod, honey, dry oak, coconut and tea leaves. There’s a fair number of citrus notes, lemons, orange and sweet butterscotch.
Palate
More pineapple and oak, vanilla and honey, cream cover grapefruit, butterscotch, buttery milk chocolate and cedar wood.
Finish
Medium – long, slightly drying with oak notes from the nose. More orange and lemons, wood spices and the same unexpected pepper attack towards the end as other Single Barrel bottlings - this was more black pepper than white.
Overall
A near identical whisky to cask 1459.
A great Balvenie, sadly these 15 years-old Single Barrel bottles are no longer produced. As mentioned on the nose, this whisky is very clean and clinical. Although a great whisky, a little roughness would have made it more unique but that’s the Balvenie way.
Overall Score:
0 / 100
Collection Count
0
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0
closed bottles
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