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22Q1 - BALBLAIR 15 yo [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Bop |
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Grape soda like |
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Sour apple, some smoke after cutting |
Sour apple |
A bit of a negative departure from their vintage release tradition. |
22Q1-Norse
February 26th, 2022 |
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06Q4 - BALBLAIR 16 yo [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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08Q2 - BALBLAIR 16 yo [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Bluff |
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Briny, charred |
Medium-bodied |
Sweet oak; salty at first |
Warm and inviting for another sip |
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08Q2-Bluff
May 31st, 2008 |
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Bop |
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Very tasty - a little bit of "wild peat" |
Northern Highlandish |
Becoming one of my favorite distilleries. I really like the heartiness of the Northern Highlands and this malt fits right in. |
08Q2-Bluff
May 31st, 2008 |
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12Q4 - BALBLAIR 16 yo [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Lakeview |
Amber |
Sherry |
Voluptuous |
Toffee |
Bring it on! |
Going to miss it |
12Q4-Bluff
December 1st, 2012 |
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15Q3 - BALBLAIR nas 1983 [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Bop |
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Cucumber. A deep inhale divulges some notes of the sea. |
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Light caramel, very smooth. No strong flavor spikes of any kind. |
Watery at the end. |
Appeared to me to be designed for smoothness at the expense of character. Over the 30 years the whisky master went for a fully integrated taste with consistency removing any roughness which is where a lot of the flavor is. |
15Q3-Bluff
January 16th, 2016 |
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11Q4 - BALBLAIR nas 1989 [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Balgam |
Light |
Citrus |
Anna Kornakova |
Apple lemon |
Sweet then peppery |
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11Q4-Bop
January 21st, 2012 |
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Bop |
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Green apple |
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Banana on the front with a lemony citrus and a menthol type hit on the back |
Very quiet and respectful |
Very very delicious. An absolute must buy. |
11Q4-Bop
January 21st, 2012 |
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Lakeview |
Yellow |
Butterscotch |
Pop Singer |
Starts off like crete, citrus and ends like Talisker 10 |
Smooth |
Great scotch for every occasion and worthy of collection. Great one for newbies to single malts |
11Q4-Bop
January 21st, 2012 |
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10Q4 - BALBLAIR nas 1991 [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |
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Name |
Color |
Nose |
Body |
Palate |
Finish |
Comments |
Meeting |
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Balgam |
Caramel/wheat |
Maple Taffy - candy |
Ethel Woods |
Heavier, pineapple, citrusy |
Polish. Oak |
More is better. |
10Q4-Bluff
January 8th, 2011 |
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Bluff |
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Maple syrup some salt |
Bold viscous |
Toffee vanilla |
lingering |
Really nice -- |
10Q4-Bluff
January 8th, 2011 |
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Bop |
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Hard, raw maple and then a confectionery 2nd sweet such as salt water taffy |
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White pepper vanilla grilled pineapple in the end |
Kind of dark and sticky |
Kind of like the Willy Wonka multi-course dinner sucker. The longer you taste it the more flavors you get. |
10Q4-Bluff
January 8th, 2011 |
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Hoopie |
More but still not much color |
Honey and other sweet notes, there's something else on nose |
Mrs. Howard Stern more viscous |
Sweet but not as sweet as nose says. Vanilla |
Nothing stands out |
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10Q4-Bluff
January 8th, 2011 |
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Lakeview |
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Orange creme dreamsicle with syrup |
Megan Fox / supple youth |
A vanilla |
Tries to go Islayic at the end |
I like it although it's "Canuckian" |
10Q4-Bluff
January 8th, 2011 |
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18Q4 - BALBLAIR nas 2003 [Distillery bottling at Standard Strength] |