Balevenie Single Malt Scotch, click on titles for full descriptions. |
| The Balvenie Distillery lies at the very heart of Scotch whisky country in Speyside, in the Scottish Highlands.
In early 1892 work began to convert an eighteenth century mansion, Balvenie New House, into a distillery. The building took fifteen months to complete and on 1st May 1893, the first distillation took place at The Balvenie Distillery. Little has altered over the years and The Balvenie Distillery is still firmly rooted in its past. The exceptional quality of The Balvenie Single Malt is due to the fact that The Balvenie Distillery retains and nurtures a high level of craftsmanship that other malt whisky producers no longer employ. 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. One of the distillery's craftsmen is maltman Robbie Gormley, who has written about his daily life in the first of a series recounting the experiences of our craftsmen in their own words. Every season at the distillery will be marked by a new account from different craftsmen at The Balvenie Distillery, giving a unique insight into the skills involved in making these whiskies. The dedication to quality of craftsmen like Robbie is reflected in every stage of the whisky making process at The Balvenie Distillery. 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. |