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After the runaway success of our previous release, we thought it only fair to do another bottling. With a nose to get lost in and a fabulously spicy, oaky palate, this is a sensational dram for the money (even if we do say so ourselves) and likely to sell out very quickly.
Product Facts
Product Facts
Bottler
Speciality Drinks
Series
Single Malts of Scotland
Age
No of Bottles
215
Country
Scotland
Region
Highland
Cask Type
Hogshead
Colouring
No
Balblair 40 Year Old Single Malts of Scotland
70cl / 47.7%
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Tasting Notes
Tasting notes by Martine Nouet
Nose
Nutty, Oaky. Malt and oak are well integrated. Sherry in the back. Strong coffee.
Palate
Rich with lots of caraway and curry (not revealed by the nose!). Warm feel.
Finish
Dry oaky and spicy.
Comments
Quite a warming fellow. A real character. For winter...or a rotten summer!.
Score
8.25 / 10.
Tasting Notes by Dave Broom
Nose
Mature and deep with a superb layering effect: ripe fleshy autumn fruits. Then fudge, citrus and a leather / bung cloth note.
Palate
Deep with good grip. Real power and a figgy depth, but then it lifts once more into cherry stone / maraschino. One to sip slowly.
Finish
Long, silky.
Comments
Yet another superb Balblair which chimes perfectly with the official bottlings.
Score
8.75 /10.
Tasting Notes by Tim F
Nose
Wood spice, vanilla, polished wood, varnish, natural caramel, old soft leather - almost like a rancio. Some sweet orange notes developing, with toffee , brown rock sugar, spice (clove) and a lovely raisin / fruitcake aroma.
Palate
Big varnished oak hit, then the sweet orange and a big surge of spice & pepper. The rest of the flavours from the nose appear in walk-on roles. Eventually the gentlest of silky barley malt notes arrives to caress the tastebuds.
Finish
Fine-grained oak tannins with the spice persisting for a long while. Great depth and balance.
Comment
A complex, serious, masculine whisky with some glorious depths and texture.
Tasting Notes from Whiskyfun (Serge Valentin)
Colour
Amber.
Nose
Really a carpenter’s workshop! Lots of cellulose varnish, freshly sawn oak but also old furniture, antiques… Also lots of vanilla, cloves, nutmeg, roasted nuts. The oakiness is very heavy but also extremely pleasant. This one could be mistaken for a very old and very good rum when nosed blind I think. Keeps developing on crystallised oranges and heather honey, then ripe melon and peaches as well as bananas flambéed. Gets more and more ‘old-Balblairish’ with time. Quite superb I must say.
Mouth
We’re closer to the famous 38yo OB now, with the fruitiness striking right from the start and holding out on the heavy woodiness. Very ripe melons again, bananas, apricots… Orange zests, pecan pie, coffee beans… Very good even if maybe a little less complex than on the nose. Still very nervous at such old age, in any case.
Finish
Long, quite hot and almost young, with the wood, the spices and the fruits mingling quite beautifully. A rather rougher version of the famous 38yo OB I’d say, still a beautiful old whisky. 90 points.
Comment
Balblair 40yo 1965/2007 (47.7%, Speciality Drinks Ltd - The Whisky Exchange)
A brand new bottling by our friends in London, with a different packaging.
