Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Warm, rich gold with amber highlights; clean and bright with medium legs suggesting a gentle, honeyed viscosity
Nose
Immediately welcoming — Balvenie's signature honey and vanilla, layered with sweet oak, gentle cinnamon spice, and a whisper of sherry-derived dried fruit. Malty cereal sweetness underneath, like warm shortbread. The sherry finish adds fig and orange marmalade complexity without dominating
Palate
Smooth, honeyed entry that opens into layers of vanilla, toasted oak, and butterscotch. The DoubleWood maturation reveals itself mid-palate: bourbon cask sweetness (vanilla, caramel, coconut) meets sherry cask richness (dried fruit, nutmeg, cinnamon). Malty cereal backbone holds everything together. Medium body with a creamy, rounded mouthfeel
Finish
Medium finish with lingering honey, gentle spice, and a drying oaky warmth. The sherry influence adds a final flourish of dried fruit and dark chocolate before fading to sweet malt and vanilla. Clean and balanced — the quintessential anytime Speyside
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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