Balvenie 15 Year Old Single Barrel In Honour Of Sandy Grant Gordon In His 65th Year
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Lot number: 101-04289
Winning bid: £360
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.
A special edition of the single barrel, released for Sandy Grant Gordon's 65th birthday.
Bottled: 1996
Age: 15 Year Old
Cask Number: 12558
50.4% ABV / 70cl
Bottle Number: 71
Please note slight blurring to bottle/cask number, minor wear to label and very minor rusting to inner tube and tin lid.
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