- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: The Whiskey Jug
- Excerpt: Balvenie Founders Reserve 10 Years is a great sipping whisky and a good daily drinker. If it were still around I’d be picking it up on the regular.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: It's light, sweet and floral and although I really wish I could try it at cask strength, its not a bad dram as it is.
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Nose:
Sweet, barley and yeasty dough notes. Some vanilla cream, light honey and some pleasant floral notes. Reminds me of a younger double wood.
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Taste:
Mild, thin, mouth feel. Honey, vanilla cream, light floral notes, its very Balvenie. No doubt.
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Finish:
Short to medium, no heat and no noticeable proof. Sweet and doughy, one dimensional but sweet, light and would have been a great summer sipper with the sunset.
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Overall:
It's good but nothing exceptionally different than standard Balvenie. It's light, sweet and floral and although I really wish I could try it at cask strength, it's not a bad dram as it is. Certainly too low in the proof which I wager is the source of the delicacy but there are no major negative flaws to speak of. For this reason, I'm giving this dram a 5.
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Score:
5
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