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Balcones

True Blue

ABV 63.6%
REVIEWED Issue 106

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Specifications

Brand: Balcones
Expression: True Blue
Type: USA Whisky / Single Malt
Age: No Age Statement
Year of bottling: 2012
ABV: 63.6%
Country/Region: USA
Bottling type: Standard (Distillery or blended)

Tasting notes

Taster Rob Allanson

Nose: Spearmint chews, cola sweets, orange sherbet, honey and warm buttered cornbread. A sort of Old Demerara rum note to this as well. In time espresso and coffee grinds.
Palate: The alcohol bites but is tempered by a lush sweetness. Dark treacle and ripe bananas on a barbeque. Some tropical fruits are here too.
Finish: Oak grip, short and sweet.
Comment: Needs a little water to open out properly but the baby has certainly been brought up properly.

8.4

Taster Martine Nouet

Nose: Intense. Prickly. Demerara sugar, molasses. Crab apples. New leather. Bee-waxed floor. In time, getting biscuity. With a hazelnut touch.
Palate: Surprisingly sweet giving the alcohol strength. Raisins and molasses. A rumcharacter. Cooked bananas.
Finish: Fizzy, slightly oaky but there is fruit too, bananas!
Comment: Seems to have a rum influence. A finish? No it is a corn American whiskey? I wouldn't have guessed. A rich aromatic profile and a pleasantly surprising alcohol mastering.

8.0

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