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Ballantine's 17 Year
Blended
Ballantine’s // Scotland
Ballantine's is part of a long tradition of grocery stores-cum-whisky bottlers in Scotland, buying barrels from the distiller and bottling the whisky for their customers. These independent bottlers served an important function in the Scotch market by buying and storing barrels when demand was low. Some of the bigger grocers amassed large stores of aging whisky, creating a diverse palate from which to blend (and hiding a few gems in the bowels of their storehouses).
Bottlers like Ballantine's, specialized in blending; others, in releasing rare casks of single malts from various distilleries. Ballantine's 17 Year is a blended Scotch comprised of malt and grain whiskies from various distilleries. Each is aged for at least 17 years, before the whiskies are blended together and bottled at 43% ABV.
Ballantine's is part of a long tradition of grocery stores-cum-whisky bottlers in Scotland, buying barrels from the distiller and bottling the whisky for their customers. These independent bottlers served an important function in the Scotch market by buying and storing barrels when demand was low. Some of the bigger grocers amassed large stores of aging whisky, creating a diverse palate from which to blend (and hiding a few gems in the bowels of their storehouses). Bottlers like Ballantine's, specialized in blending; others, in releasing rare casks of single malts from various distilleries. Ballantine's 17 Year is a blended Scotch comprised of malt and grain whiskies from various distilleries. Each is aged for at least 17 years, before the whiskies are blended together and bottled at 43% ABV.
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age17 Year
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abv43.0
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BlendedComprised of both single malt(s) and single grain(s) often from many different distilleries; if Scotch or Irish must be aged for at least three years in oak barrels; Irish may include single pot still whiskey in the blend.
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Tasting Notes
"A layered nose of cedar cigar box, wet brick, vanilla, fudge, chocolate malt, smoke and floral honey. Green garden herbs, such as basil and thyme, shine bright. The flavors won’t bully you but are restrained and academic. If this whisky wore a jacket, it would be tweed with leather patches on the elbows. Banana and spices are firm into the persistent dry finish."
Added by
Blair Phillips
Score
88