The Balvenie 16 Year French Oak Finished in Pineau Casks
The Balvenie French Oak 16 Finished in Pineau Casks
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…..We’ll start off with the low hanging fruit. The packaging is great, complete with the usual The Balvenie sophisticated classical look but with some French pizzazz – purplish and gold foil to the lettering. The Balvenie doesn’t release a lot of new stuff – at least not in the U.S., although seeing the Instagram pictures of some of the folks that I follow, it does seem that the rest of the world and Travel Retail get a lot of the newer, fun stuff. Given this, I salivated at this purchase, and to be quite honest, I wasn’t sensitive to price and was likely to buy it at $150 or $250. At this price rage, the value argument is a bit of a philosophical debate, there is no right answer, and it all depends on your own opinion and preferences……
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