Balvenie 15 year old Single Barrel 1997
SKU: 32998670,00€
In stock
The Balvenie Crafts Range consists of "limited edition" whiskies. This is the 15 year old expression distilled in 1997, where a single ex-bourbon cask will provide no more than 350 bottles. Each bottle is numbered and carries the number of the cask as well.
The Balvenie is located in Dufftown, in the middle of the Speyside region. The distillery was built by William Grant in 1892 and started whisky production in 1893. The distillery is still owned by the William Grant & Sons Company.
William Grant remained active until 1923, when he passed away and his son John began the first expansion of the distillery.
In 1962, David C.Steward began working with William Grant & Sons in the age of 17 and in 1974 he became the fourth Malt Master of the Balvenie distillery history.
During 1983 Steward would start experimenting in Balvenie whisky maturation in two different wood types, a method that would be later called as “finishing”
For his services to the Scotch Whisky Industry, he received his MBE (Most Excellent Order of the English Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2016.
The Balvenie distillery is still growing and malting a percentage of the barley they use (as they reach a capacity of aroynd 5.6 million liters per year), while they have their own cooperage and coppersmith.