An extraordinarily well-matured whisky from the Balvenie Distillery, released as part of the The Balvenie DCS Compendium Chapter Five. The whole DCS Compendium honours malt master David C. Stewart MBE... Read more
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| Name | Balvenie 56 Year Old 1962 (Cask 5575) The Balvenie Dcs Compendium Chapter Five |
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| Brand | Balvenie |
| Average Price | £32054.19 |
| Type | Scotch Whisky |
| Region | Speyside Whisky |
| Volume | 700ml |
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| Country of Origin | Scotland |
| Created On CasKompare | 05-22-2022 |
An extraordinarily well-matured whisky from the Balvenie Distillery, released as part of the The Balvenie DCS Compendium Chapter Five. The whole DCS Compendium honours malt master David C. Stewart MBE, and features whisky picked out by the man himself. This particular expression was distilled in 1962, the very same year that Stewart started working at William Grant! It was aged in a European oak hogshead for a massive 56 years, before being bottled in 2019 at 42.1% ABV with an outturn of only 90 bottles. Astonishing stuff.~ Master of Malt
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Owned by William Grant & Sons, the Balvenie distillery is a Speyside single malt Scotch whiskey distillery in Dufftown, Scotland. On December 19, 1839, William Grant was born in his father's Dufftown home. [Reference required] At age seven, he started herding cattle on a property near the upper Deveron River. [Reference required] He started out as a shoemaker's apprentice before working as a clerk and eventually becoming a bookkeeper at the Mortlach distillery in 1866. There, he was hired as a clerk and later promoted to manager while learning the craft of distillation. After working in the Mortlach distillery for almost twenty years, Grant decided to leave and purchase a field close to Balvenie Castle. He immediately began to design his distillery, and in the fall of 1886, the first stone was set. Grant worked for the business until his passing in 1923 at the age of 83. Early in 1892, construction of an 18th-century house (Balvenie New House) to be used as a distillery started. The Balvenie Distillery's first distillation happened on May 1, 1893, after the structure had been constructed for fifteen months. One of the most seasoned professionals in the field, David Stewart MBE, Balvenie's Malt Master, started his career with William Grant & Sons in 1962. The procedure by which whiskies are aged in one type of cask, such as ex-Bourbon barrels, then moved into a second type of cask (such as ex-Sherry, Port, or Rum barrels), resulting in a greater depth and complexity of the whisky's ultimate flavor, is possibly the one for which he is most well-known. On July 5, 2016, he earned an MBE from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contributions to the Scotch Whisky Industry.
