Balvenie

Tasting notes: The nose on this— –“I seem to have drunk all of mine.”  [Bill, with a furrow of befuddlement in his brow.].  “What?!”  [John and Stephen, [...]

Tasting notes: Approaching the nose on this discontinued dram is like nosing half of a lemon skin holding caramel custard, candied oranges from Victorian era, orange oil from [...]

Tasting notes: The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Sherry Cask is a dark ruby dram in an otherwise clear tumbler. If we click our glasses together three times, we’ll go back [...]

We here at The Malt Impostor are very pleased to introduce The Balvenie Whisky Feed.  Readers, Balvenie Whisky Feed; Whisky Feed, Readers.  You may or may not appreciate it [...]

[We were lucky enough to nose this amazing whisky as it married in the hallowed Tun 1401 at the distillery this past summer.  We’re thrilled to experience it now from [...]

Tasting notes: To eschew simile in favor of metaphor, The Balvenie Doublewood 17 Year Old is two eight and a half year-olds.  This is no dig at its flavor profile: eight and [...]

Tasting notes: Poe once wrote about The Tell Tale Heart.  Had he the great good fortune of pouring out a measure of the Balvenie 12 Single Barrel, he might have written [...]

      We missed the exact date of David Stewart’s 50th anniversary in the employ of The Balvenie by a little over three months here, but we’re hoping this [...]

Tasting notes:      Looking deep into the glass of the Balvenie Craftsman’s Reserve #1: The Cooper is like locking eyes with a panther’s 1000-yard stare, [...]

Tasting notes:       Today, class, we’re going to explore a new topic in journalism by examining the works of novelists Kingsley Amis, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas [...]