Balvenie 25th Anniversary Doublewood

2018 marks the 25th anniversary of The Balvenie DoubleWood, and so to celebrate Balvenie is looking back at its journey. The Balvenie released this limited edition specially designed by Master distiller, David Stewart, initiator of the double maturation process, in Bourbon barrels and Sherry casks. This 25-year-old DoubleWood is a distillery-based whisky blended in 1993, when the 12-year-old DoubleWood was launched. It was then finished in Spanish Oloroso Sherry casks for 3 months.

“The final liquid has a lovely combination of sweetness and spice, with candied orange, some honey syrup on the nose, followed by a velvety mouth-coating taste, with layers of brown sugar and sweet dried fruits,” Stewart says, "with a finish full of oak and sherried sweetness" thanks to the two kinds of casks.

Thanks to natural alchemy and centuries-old craftsmanship, The Balvenie is unique among single malts. Our whisky-making process is dedicated to maintaining the Five Rare Crafts and we are the only distillery in Scotland that still grows its own barley, uses traditional floor maltings and keeps both a coppersmith and a team of coopers on site. And of course, our Malt Master David C. Stewart MBE presides over the all-important maturation process. Making The Balvenie the most hand-crafted of single malts.