Whisky Forum - Balvenie Portwood 21

Snakepovic · New Member Joined: 22 Apr 2017 Posts: 4

I was recently at an airport and decided to get a new whisky. I've never bought on airports before but, I soon noticed most of the scotch were special flight bottles. There were something different with each bottle compared to the regular ones. But then I found one I thought was a regular bottle. Balvenie Portwood 21 YO but when I got home I found out this was not a regular one as I thought. It's actually a 47.6% compared to the regular with a lower alcohol volume.

Damn I thought, I've been reading tons of good reviews of this scotch as I thought it was the regular one.

Have anyone tasted both? Are they the same in taste?

cobrajetjoe · Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I cannot give you a comparison as I have only tried the duty free, higher abv, version of the Balvenie 21 Portwood. But I can tell you that it is imho an excellent dram. You should very much enjoy it!

Snakepovic · New Member Joined: 22 Apr 2017 Posts: 4

drPete · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 2:07 pm Post subject:

I have enjoyed both in the past, slight preference for the duty free version, both excellent and my favourite "standard" Balvenie.
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