The Balvenie

DoubleWood 12 was created using a technique designed by Malt Master David Stewart known as 'wood finishing'. To create The Balvenie DoubleWood, David Stewart MBE takes whisky that has spent at least 12 years in traditional whisky casks, American Oak...

To create The Balvenie PortWood 21 year old single malt whisky, a marriage of rare Balvenie is transferred to port casks, or pipes, which have held fine port wines.Here it is sampled regularly by The Balvenie Malt Master David C....

TASTING NOTESNose: Elegant and complex oak, vanilla, honeyed sweetness and a hint of green apple.Taste: Sweet with dried fruits, sherbet spice, toasted almonds and cinnamon, layered with a richness of creamy toffee notes and traces of oak and deep vanilla.Finish:...

The Balvenie 16 Year Old French Oak Scotch Whisky Finished in Pineau Casks

TASTING NOTESNose: Dried fruits overlaid with a gentle nuttinessTASTE Rich with elegant oak and subtle spiceFinish: Long, sherried finishThe Balvenie Single Barrel Sherry Cask has been matured exclusively in a single European oak sherry butt for at least 15 years....

The second of The Balvenie Stories finds distillery manager Ian Millar eager to experiment with what he had learnt from a recent trip to Islay. He ordered a batch of Speyside peat for the kiln and, for a week a...

The Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 year old single malt whisky has been matured in traditional oak whisky casks for 14 years, and then ‘finished’ in casks that previously held Caribbean rum.To create the ideal finish Malt Master David C. Stewart...

The first of The Balvenie Stories finds Apprentice Malt Master Kelsey McKechnie importing Virgin Oak barrels from Kentucky to produce a fruiter, sweeter Balvenie. After deep toasting them at The Balvenie Cooperage, they were filled with Balvenie aged in ex-bourbon...

The Balvenie Single Barrel First Fill is a 12 year old single malt whisky, aged in a first fill, ex-bourbon cask. Almost all Scotch whisky is matured in casks previously used by Bourbon distillers. When brought to Scotland and used...

This Balvenie 25-Year-Old is the first of a series of prestige long-aged Balvenies: the Rare Marriages range. Malt Master David C. Stewart MBE brings together individual casks that have matured in Traditional American and European Oak to craft an incredibly...

This is the story of rare Caribbean rum maturation that begins not in a distillery warehouse, but amongst the glistening bottle-lined shelves of The Balvenie’s Sample Room… A whisky finished in ex-Caroni rum casks for a taste that develops from...

Using some of the rarest casks that have been carefully matured in Traditional American and European Oak in The Balvenie warehouses, Malt Master David C. Stewart MBE creates to craft a bold marriage of extraordinary character. Rich and refined; intense honeyed...