Soba45
Kininvie 23 Year
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
May 12, 2018 (edited May 23, 2019)
This is a review for the 23 year old 1991 Batch 3 version. I'm assuming it's the same as the age and abv match. Anyhow to the whisky. I bought it as I'm on a mission to try all Scotland's finest commercially available distilleries. I never heard of this one until I checked all the distilleries out there. Apparently I'm not the only one as reviews online start off...'The little known distillery...'. Founded by William Grant & Sons in 1990 it was built to take some of the production strain off its sister distilleries of Balvenie and Glenfiddich. The majority of the whisky produced there is used in Grant's blended range and Monkey Shoulder. Kininvie is located on the same site as its sister distilleries and shares aspects of their production. Anyway the whisky. It's a nice drop, until I researched I thought it was a grain whisky by the taste. Very light flavour profile but very nicely balanced. I had this after a dram of Macallan Rare Black and it held up well. Another review summed it up as vanilla, lemon, grass and icing sugar which encapsulates it well. ~$140 USD and a 4.25 for me. One of those drams I don't usually like as its a bit ethereal but it pulls it off nicely due to the multi faceted well balanced flavour profile.
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@cascode Yeah buying samples from them is extremely addictive. They have literally thousands (I think I went through 100+ pages at 25 a page once). I have added to my list on MoM a number of mezcals you recommended. Its at 59 items and growing and I only ordered my last lot a couple of months ago!
@Soba45 Thanks! I can see a MOM order in my future :-)
@cascode Cheers :-). Master of Malt is my go to outside NZ. They have samples of a couple of Kininvies a 25 year and this. This was a 1/3rd the price of the 25 so plumbed for this and I wasn't disappointed!
Nice find! Where on earth did you dig this up? I've been searching for any Kinivie at all to no avail for ages.