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| Hello, that is one in every of our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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July 12, 2021
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Summer time Duets
In the present day younger Balblair |
| Let’s have a look at if newer distillations have retained that ‘fruit bomb’ facet that all of us liked lots. Balblair’s most likely the fruitiest northern Highlander, is it not? |
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Balblair 8 yo 2011/2020 (54.8%, Dram Mor, 1st fill PX, cask # 359004) 
It is first fill PX however in keeping with the very gentle color, it didn’t go into extremes. Phew. Color: white wine. Nostril: boy is it sizzling, uncooked and eau-de-vie-ish! Is not this really artisanal kirschwasser straight from an previous Holstein? Additionally blackcurrant buds, sizzling porridge (50% porridge, 50% moonshine, an ideal breakfast), bitter cherries, grape stalks… I suppose water could be necessary right here. With water: typical whiffs of rubber and paraffin, plus recent leaven bread. That is actually uncooked, however I reasonably like leaven bread. Mouth (neat): extra uncooked kirsch spirit, this time with pears as nicely, uncooked wine brandy, marc… all that with a protracted minimize. With water: there, backyard fruits, round inexperienced plums and extra bitter cherries. A contact of lemon pores and skin, inexperienced pears… End: medium, grassier. Stalks, stems and pips. Feedback: completely uncooked model, with a PX that is as expressive as Invoice Wyman. PX, actually? Wants water.
SGP:361 – 80 factors. |
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Just a few extra years of maturation please…
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Balblair 2005/2021 (48.5%, OB for The Whisky Alternate, cask #213, 180 bottles) 
The sooner official 2005/2016 was excellent nevertheless it was too younger too and reasonably akin to eau-de-vie de barley certainly (WF 83). Just a few extra years could have helped… Color: white wine. Nostril: nicely, it’s nonetheless uncooked and certainly eau-de-vie-ish, with out the sort of fruity bonanza that used to occur with earlier Balblairs, then again these notes of coconut balls, marzipan and skinny mints work very nicely, they ‘carry’ it. Some hops too, pink grapefruits… sparsely. No fruit bomb right here, nevertheless it retains enhancing, getting even to gentian and different rooty/earthy delicacies. Mouth: identical emotions as with the nostril, begins a little bit uncooked and grassy, if not a wee tad feinty, however vanilla, coconut, zucchini flowers, crystallised violets and as soon as once more pink grapefruits and hops are quickly to return to the rescue. A two-step malt, actually, so please don’t rush it. End: some rawer grassiness is again and would come along with inexperienced, bitter pears and apples. Barley syrup within the aftertaste, even perhaps agave syrup. Or there, gentian syrup! Feedback: this one likes to play with you, it is an actual kitten. A kitten with lengthy claws…
SGP:461 – 86 factors. |
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