The Balvenie Portwood 21 is delicious.
It's a Speyside malt - the distillery is next door to Glenfiddich. It's a nice, round, slightly fruity flavor. It's incredibly smooth. The finish is very dry and woody - cedar perhaps?
It would be fantastic with a pipe - there's a little charcoal in the finish.
The port casks don't change the flavor of this whisky nearly as much as the Cognac casks do with The Glenlivet's French Oak. The end result is a great straight-ahead whisky.
Posted by peter at March 8, 2004 03:48 PM