Balvenie 17 Year Old Islay Cask 75cl
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Lot number: 106-04814
Winning bid: £230
Built by the Grant family in Dufftown, and situated next door to sister distillery Glenfiddich, Balvenie is at the heart of Grant's range of blends. Despite their proximity and shared water source, the style of spirit produced by the pair are quite different, with Balvenie producing a sweeter, more honeyed and very lightly peated new make spirit.
It wasn't until 1990, when Kininvie distillery was able to shoulder some of the responsibility for blending stock production, that Balvenie was really able to push forward as a single malt. The distillery quickly distinguished itself through use of innovative maturation processes, and was a pioneer of cask "finishing" with the introduction of it's DoubleWood expression in 1993. Balvenie is also one of the few remaining distilleries still using on site maltings, although today this only meets a small percentage of its requirements.
Only 94 casks were used in the creation of this unusual Balvenie. Master blender, David Stewart, selected aged whisky for a further maturation of six months in casks that had previously held Islay Single Malt.
Bottled: 2001
Age: 17 Years Old
Cask Type: Finished in Islay single malt casks
43% ABV / 75cl
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