Balvenie 1968 46 Year Old DCS Compendium Chapter 1

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 its Doublewood expression in 1993. Balvenie is also one of the few remaining distilleries still using onsite maltings; although today this only meets a small percentage of its requirements.

DCS Compendium is a five-part collection of 25 whiskies and accompanying book, created to celebrate the life’s work of malt master David Charles Stewart.

The Compendium is split into five ‘Chapters’, each of which features five single cask whiskies from five different decades.

A different chapter will be released annually between now and 2019, each of them reflecting a different chapter in the accompanying book, written by Balvenie global brand ambassador Dr Sam Simmons.

Chapter 1

Distilled: 11.06.1968

Bottled: 26.03.2015

Age: 46 Years Old 

Cask Number: 7293

45.9% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: One of only 68 bottles released 

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