SCYFOOD > Whisky Balvenie 40 Year Old Contact Customer Service ENQUIRY William Grant built The Balvenie Distillery into the abandoned shell of an 18th century manor house next to his already successful Glenfiddich distillery in 1892, at the age of seven, he was sent to a farm on the banks of the Deveron River, apprenticed to a shoemaker, William became an accountant at the Mortlach distillery in 1866. Immediately, he began to learn the art of distillation. Balvenie is one of the few distilleries still using floor malting and peating in an on-site kiln using barley grow on the distillery’s own fall, Balvenie Mains. Produced in it's seventh generation this 40 year old was a marriage of three American oak casks and three sherry butts. 70cl/48,5%
