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Balvenie 10 Year Old Founders Reserve
Balvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood
Balvenie 1993 Portwood
Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Year Old
Balvenie Islay Cask 17 Year Old
Balvenie 21 Year Old Portwood
Balvenie Thirty Year
Balvenie Cask 191
Balvenie 1972 Vintage
Balvenie 1974 Vintage
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Balvenie Distillery |
ORIGINALLY AN 18TH CENTURY MANSION - BALVENIE NEW HOUSE - NOW A DISTILLERY |
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.
News of the development spread rapidly through the whisky community and congratulations and good wishes poured in. 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 1920's 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.
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