Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky

The Balvenie Single Malt Whisky

Distillery Information

Current Owners William Grant & Sons Ltd.

Location Dufftown, Speyside

Water source Robbie Dubh.

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Distilling Equipment

Stainless Steel Mash Tun,

10 Douglas Fir Washbacks,

4 Wash Stills,

5 Sprit Stills,

Matured using a large proportion of European Sherry casks.

Retains its own maltings for part of its malt supply.

On site cooperage

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery History

The Balvenie Distillery lies at the very heart of Scotch whisky distillation in Speyside, in the Scottish Highlands.

The 1890’s were boom years for the Scotch whisky industry and in early 1892 work began to convert an eighteenth century mansion, Balvenie New House, into a distillery. The basement was to become a bonded store for maturing whisky, the first storey a malt floor, whilst the upper two floors were to be used as grain lofts. The building took fifteen months to complete and on 1st May 1893, the first distillation took place at The Balvenie Distillery.

In the early 1920’s the old mansion was levelled to the basement floor and the stone blocks were used to build a new malt barn and kiln. There was a new office and racking store; the old malt kiln was converted into malt bins and electric light was installed.

In 1957 the number of stills, which had remained at two since 1893, was increased to four and since then there have been other discreet expansions, such that today there are nine stills at The Balvenie Distillery.

But little else has altered over the years and The Balvenie Distillery is still firmly rooted in its past. Nowhere else will you find a distillery that still grows its own barley, malts in its own traditional floor maltings and employs coopers to tend the casks and a coppersmith to maintain the stills. Successive generations of skill on the malting floor, in the tun room and the still house, in the cooperage and the warehouses have preserved the consistency and remarkably high quality of The Balvenie® down the years.

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