The Balvenie

Speyside-based Balvenie is the only Scotch whisky distillery to grow its own barley, use traditional floor maltings and keep coppersmiths and coopers on site. Its single malts – made by the longest-serving Malt Master David Stewart MBE – are some of the most recognised worldwide

About The Balvenie

Located in Dufftown, Speyside, where the rivers Fiddich and Dullan meet, The Balvenie is only separated from the Glenfiddich Distillery – which is also owned by William Grant & Sons – by a railway. The distillery is named after the neighbouring castle of the same name, which dates at least to the 1200s. Built in 1892 by the Grant family who established Glenfiddich in 1886, the first Balvenie stills were bought second-hand from Lagavulin and Glen Albyn. Today, there are nine stills and the “Balvenie ball” still with a bulge or boil ball at the base of the swan’s neck (replicated in the bottle design) is unique. The Balvenie grows barley on its 1,000-acre Balvenie Mains farm which overlooks the distillery. It still malts a small percentage of its barley on site.

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