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Balvenie Scotch Whisky Distillery Style

Tasting Notes

Nose: Rich with honey and orange,

Palate: Medium rich body, fantastic array of fruit complexity and light spicy
notes underlined with honey, touch of sweetness.
 
Finish: Long, lingering, rich, fruity, honey.

Balvenie Distillery, Dufftown,

Banffshire
AB55 4DH

Tel: +44 (0)1340 820373.

Tours by appointment

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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.

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery Bottlings

Today The Balvenie Distillery produces a range of The Balvenie Single Malts, which includes.

The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old,
The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Year Old,
The Balvenie PortWood 1993
The Balvenie Signature
The Balvenie Thirty

A rare, limited edition Vintage Cask, which is over 30 years old, is also bottled each year.

The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Older Distillery Bottlings
The Balvenie Founder’s Reserve 10 Year Old,
The Balvenie Rum Wood Aged 14 Years
The Balvenie Roasted Malt Aged 14 years
The Balvenie Rum Cask, Aged 17 Years
The Balvenie Islay Cask, Aged 17 Years
The Balvenie New Oak, Aged 17 Years
The Balvenie New Wood, Aged 17 Years
The Balvenie Sherry Oak, Aged 17 Years
The Balvenie 1989 Portwood
The Balvenie Single Barrel Aged 25 Years
The Balvenie Portwood 1993
The Balvenie Vintage Cask
The Balvenie Cask 191 Aged 50 years
The Balvenie Vintage Casks 1967, 1968, 1972,

The Balvenie Independent Bottlings
William Grants maintains a very careful eye on every cask of Balvenie so none of the casks find their way on to the open market. The only reported independent bottling of The Balvenie was by a German company: The Maltmill in Hamburg and labelled

The Maltmill Speyside Single Malt 11 years. Was this a Balvennie?