Balblair 40 Year Old / Single Malts of Scotland
Product Description

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.

Balblair 40 Year Old Single Malts of Scotland

  • Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Speciality Drinks

70cl / 47.7%

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Tasting Notes

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.

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