Balvenie is one of the world's most loved Single Malt Scotch Whiskies. The
multi-award winning Balvenie Distillery in Banffshire is famous for being the
only one left in Scotland to retain the traditional crafts of whisky production.
Nowhere else will you find a distillery that still grows its own barley, still
malts in its own traditional floor maltings and still employs a team of coopers
to tend all the casks and a coppersmith to maintain the stills. Meanwhile our
maltmen turn the barley up to four times a day, seven days a week. The
Distillery has been owned and managed by the same independent family company for
five generations.
To produce The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old, David Stewart MBE takes whisky
that has spent at least 12 years in traditional whisky casks, American oak
ex-bourbon barrels and hogsheads to mellow the maturing spirit and Impart
warming layers of vanilla spiciness. He then moves it to Spanish oak ex-Oloroso
sherry casks for an additional nine months to increase complexity, bringing
fruity, honeyed depths to the resulting Single Malt. The whisky is then
transferred to large oak vessels called “tuns” for 3-4 months to allow the
whiskies to “marry”. This is an excellent introduction to a matured whisky for
your collection and would also make a welcome gift for a loved one.
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