Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Medium amber gold with warm copper highlights; deeper than 10yo, extra maturation shows
Nose
Mature smoky character — campfire smoke, honey, dried fruit, vanilla, toasted almond. 15 years have mellowed and integrated peat beautifully. Leather, tobacco, aged oak alongside smoke. Recognizably Ballechin but with sophistication
Palate
Full-bodied. Peat smoke present but integrated — more smoked honey than raw campfire. Dark toffee, stewed fruit, smoked almond, leather, vanilla. Sherry cask adds dried fruit and chocolate. Bourbon cask adds vanilla and citrus. A complete whisky
Finish
Very long finish. Integrated smoke, honey, dried fruit, aged oak. Peat has become part of fabric rather than headline. Leather and tobacco linger. What Ballechin becomes with time — extraordinary
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
Ex-bourbon and ex-oloroso sherry casks — batch vatting
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