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BALVENIE 12 yo Signature 40%
Bottling Official
(70cl.)
12 Years old
Origin : Scotland
Gift box whisky The Balvenie Signature 12 years + 2 glasses.
The Balvenie Signature aged 12 Years is an exposition of the traditional art of The Balvenie Malt Master, David Stewart ~ created to celebrate his 45 years in the whisky industry. He skillfully marries aged Balvenie from the finest first fill bourbon, refill and sherry casks to create this signature malt, characterised by honey, spice and subtle oak.
A limited release, each batch of The Balvenie Signature is a unique marriage of these three cask types and each bottle carries its own batch number.
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The Distillery...
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Whisky THE BALVENIE.
In early 1892, work began to convert an 18th century mansion - Balvenie New House - into a distillery. The Balvenie New House had been purchased by William Grant in March of the same year. Uninhabitable and austere, it was a building of some grandeur with the coat of arms of the Duffs carved into the pediment of its second story. William Grant was a clever businessman and saw this as another venture. He had the land, the rights to use the water and a strong business compulsion to extend his options.
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.
Over the years there have been a number of discreet expansions. In the early 1920s, the old mansion was levelled to the basement floor and the stone blocks were used to build a new malt barn and kiln. The old malt kiln was converted into malt bins, electric light was installed and the number of stills has increased to nine.
Nowhere else will you find a distillery that still grows its own barley, still malts in its own traditional floor maltings and still 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.
Our aim is to give you a truly personal experience, for this reason our tours are limited to a maximum of 8 people. The tour lasts for approx 2.5 hours and costs £25 per person. Our tours are only available to those aged 18 years or over. As the Balvenie is a working distillery there are a few areas with steps and an amount of walking is required. The distillery is over 100 years old, and as such, is not accessible for wheel chairs.
adress :
The Balvenie whisky Distillery Dufftown AB55 4DH BANFFSHIRE
