Ballechin 2007 SV

Name: Ballechin 2007 SV
Brand: Ballechin
SKU: 121413
Rating: 85.7 (90 reviews)

Overall rating: 85.70/100
votes: 90

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Edradour
Bottler: Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling serie: Small Batch Edition #2
Vintage: 2007
Bottled: 2018
Stated Age: 11 years old
Casktype: 2nd Fill Sherry Butt, 1st Fill Bourbon Barrel
Casknumber: 167,168 & 158,159
Number of bottles: 1114
Strength: 48.1 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottled for: Kirsch Whisky Import
Added on: 24 Nov 2018 4:25 pm by Franki San

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Whisky Reviews for Ballechin 2007 SV

11 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 85.70 points

hs305 scored this whisky 84 points
13 May 2019 10:24 pm
[January, 2018] I had this dram during a FoSM club tasting.

This could be a peated dram from any mainland distillery without an impressive malt profile (just like Edradour). What else to say? Nothing.

Nose

85 85

The colour is jonquiripe corn and the nose offers a modern peated highland profile that could be any mainland distillery, to be honest. What else? Nothing.

Taste

84 84

The taste is barley sugary sweet and peaty-bitter like the smoke of a burning bonfire. What else? Nothing. This could be any mainland distillery...

Finish

83 83

The dram arrives a little hot without any coating effect in the mouth and shows a minor drying-astringent moment (cold ashes). The finish is of medium length and adds no new impressions. What else? Water is not needed.
JuBO scored this whisky 87 points
24 Nov 2018 8:59 pm
First impression: WOW

Color: medium dark amber

Nose

87 87

Torfing (without end), but not intrusive, reminiscent of peat fire ..... in old cottages

Taste

88 88

Peat smoke slightly sweet, parts of dried fruits, caramel and vanilla, not too intrusive, coffee notes and slightly cinnamon notes, also here you can see the oak barrels, a total of a very round composition .......

Finish

87 87

Medium to long, spicy, sweet with cinnamon spices and a fantastic persistent smoke trail.
DocF scored this whisky 86 points
08 Mar 2019 12:42 am
Color: Deep Copper

Meets my expectation. Tasty whisky at an acceptable price, for the small batches you have probably picked the better sherry casks.

Nose

First fruity sherry notes, then resinous, earthy, old leather, late smoke, between smoking campfire on which someone has just thrown earth, and fumes. With water: resinous, less fruits. Hazelnuts.

Taste

Voluminous and racy for 48%. Earthy, dirty, smoky smoke, ripe oranges, bitter walnuts. Water takes the whisky sharpness and volume.

Finish

Medium. Resinous, wet ash. Paint, tree sap, rotting wood.
LeChiffre scored this whisky 78 points
12 Jan 2019 6:00 pm
Solid smoky, slightly sweet independent bottling. Not particularly salient, also with regard to the price.

Nose

78 78

powerful, a lot of smoke (burnt wood), behind it discreet sweetness

Taste

78 78

superficial peat smoke - behind it slight sweetness, earthy notes

Finish

77 77

smoky, spicy, oak, coffee notes
dRambo scored this whisky 87 points
20 Dec 2018 12:55 pm
has convinced me in direct comparison more than a Lagavulin DE 18yo

I found it very delicious - even if this direct style is not my prey scheme.

Nose

88 88

Taste

87 87

Finish

87 87
Florius scored this whisky 84 points
12 Jul 2020 2:02 pm
AnnEm scored this whisky 82 points
09 May 2020 7:44 am

Nose: earth, autumn leaves, then subdued cereal sweetness, association: the strange, crumbly diet Breakfast cereal biscuits by a Belgian colleague; raw meat (I guess that's the peat), mushroom, vegetable oil, after half an hour in the glass came an egg liqueur note that amazes me.

Mouth: unpleasantly dusty, astringent, rather turns me off.

Finish: sweet, leaves, unripe nut, a dusty, musty, moldy mouthfeel remains.

Conclusion: Nose is okay, but I can't cope with the taste.
marmeladow scored this whisky 80 points
25 Feb 2020 7:05 pm

After uncorking, a lot of smoke (really heavily peated), little sherry, and otherwise comparatively few other aromas and flavors. Reduction to about 46% opens it a little more impressively.
Over the course of six weeks, it became rounder with notes of bourbon, fruit and sherry.
Overall, however, one of my signatory disappointments, an experiment with Edradour + Torf that was overpriced for me. I prefer cheaper Islay originals.
dhMaki scored this whisky 87 points
17 Feb 2020 9:15 pm
Unfortunately the cork is broken when opening :(.

Nose

87 87

The initial peat smoke is restrained.
Otherwise fruity with sweet vanilla.

Taste

88 88

Oily and initially creamy and sweet on the tongue.
The peat smoke is now much more present and
goes well with fruit and sweetness as well
the increasing spiciness.

Finish

87 87

Medium in length and spicy-sweet with smoke in the aftertaste.
gallfux did not rate this whisky
24 Sep 2019 10:22 pm

Compared to the 10er original bottling (WID: 58671) already noticeable more sherry. As a result, the smoke is a little withdrawn. Somehow the Sherrynoten seem a bit artificial. In the mouth, the smoke is stronger then. In addition, sweetness and nicer bitterness than the 10s. I like the previously tasted van Wees (WID: 95796) better.

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