Ballantine's Finest

The nose is overpowered by alcohol, the one you use for cleaning, which tries to hide a non-so-bad aroma of amaretto, dried fruit and rusks. But everything is very crushed and lashed by this synthetic and annoying presence, which in the end prevails and cancels any good intention. Pity. Luckily, on the palate alcohol gets a little aside, bringing out vanilla, still amaretto, dried fruit and candied orange. All very sweet and also difficult to discern, in a profile that is (and wants to be, that's clear) superficial and drinkable. Moreover, even when drunk, the alcoholic irritability of the nose infiltrates the already precarious balance of taste. Very short, evanescent finish, an imprint of sweet alcohol like a cheap cake.

fairly smooth.