At the 2006 International Spirits Challenge, The Balvenie was awarded gold medals for its Founder’s Reserve 10 Year Old , DoubleWood 12 Year Old , Balvenie New Wood 17 Year Old , PortWood 21 Year Old , Balvenie Thirty and Balvenie Portwood 1991. This is the biggest gold medal haul for any brand in any one year since the competition began. ... Read More »
One of the classic after-dinner malts, Balvenie Doublewood's extra complexity and richness are a result of a second maturation in fresh sherry casks. Great stuff. Web-Exclusive Price!
Balvenie Signature 12yo replaced the Founders Reserve 10yo as the staple in the distillery's range. This is a marriage of Sherry, Bourbon and Refill casks and, as always with Balvenie, it's a polished, mellow whisky to relax with. Web-Exclusive Price!
Balvenie 15yo Single Barrel is always a complex proposition, the higher alcohol content giving the malt a bit of extra muscle, although the rich, fruity distillery character is still very evident. This thinker's dram was a winner at the World Whisky Awards 2010. Web-Exclusive Price!
A special Balvenie originally bottled for the travel retail market, Golden Cask has spent the latter part of its 14 years of maturation in casks that formerly held golden Caribbean rum.
The 2010 release of Balvenie 17yo is a bit of a curio, having been re-racked after inital normal maturation into casks that previously held...a peated Balvenie?! So this is a peated finish rather than a peated whisky. The smoke is there, but not as full-frontal as you'd get if the spirit itself was peated. A very interesting experiment, and we await the peated Balvenie that previously graced the casks with eager interest.
The first single malt Scotch whisky to be made using a batch of dark roasted malted barley, more commonly used in the production of stout, this new Balvenie is wonderfully rich and malty with a silky smooth mouth feel. Hints of toffee, marmalade, honey and oak tannin all enveloped with a spicy, vanilla sweetness.
A rare independent bottling of Balvenie by Signatory, released in the early 1990s. There aren't many non-distillery bottlings of Balvenie around and Serge at Whisky Fun gave this one a 91.
A flat bottle of Balvenie Classic from the 1980s, with a wax seal at the base of the neck embossed with the year that they started building the distillery - 1892.