Description
Sometimes called ‘The Taste of Craftsmanship’, this gift set contains three different Balvenie whisky miniatures:
Balvenie Doublewood 12 year old – Sweet with nuts and cinnamon with layers of sherry. (40% abv)
Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 year old – Extra matured in rum casks for a Caribbean flavour. (43% abv)
Balvenie Doublewood 17 year old – A superb whisky with hints of dried fruits and mixed spice. (43% abv)
THE BALVENIE is a range of single malts crafted by Malt Master David Stewart. Each expression is unique, but all are rich, luxuriously smooth and underpinned by a distinctive honeyed character. Understanding his craft like few others, David uses different cask types and ages of spirit, to develop exquisite, new interpretations of The Balvenie’s classic character.
The Balvenie DoubleWood is a 12 year old single malt which gains its distinctive character from being matured in two wood types. Over the period of maturation it is transferred from a traditional oak whisky cask to a first fill European oak sherry cask. Each stage lends different qualities to the resulting single malt ~ the traditional casks soften and add character, at the same time as the sherry wood brings depth and fullness of flavour.
Caribbean Cask has been matured in traditional oak whisky casks for 14 years, and then ‘finished’ in casks that in the past held Caribbean rum.To create the ideal finish Malt Master David Stewart, filled American oak casks with his own blend of make a choice West Indian rums. When he judged the casks to be ready, the rum was once replaced with the 14 year old spirit and the wood was once put to work adding the final touches. The result is a phenomenal single malt whisky with the traditional smooth, honeyed character of The Balvenie, married with notes of toffee and a hint of fruit, with a warm, lingering finish.
To craft DoubleWood 17 Year Old Malt Master David Stewart, who celebrated his 50th year at The Balvenie in 2012, returned to one of his most celebrated achievements – consecutive maturation in two several types of cask, a process frequently known as ‘cask finishing’. This technique is at the heart of The Balvenie DoubleWood – it sees the whisky matured first in American oak barrels, which impart soft sweet vanilla notes, before being transferred to European oak sherry casks, where the second one cask ageing adds rich spicy flavours and a depth and fullness of flavour. The DoubleWood 17 Year Old is an elder sibling to DoubleWood 12 Year Old and shares its honeyed, spicy characteristics, but it is distinctly different, with deeper vanilla notes, hints of green apple, creamy toffee and a striking richness and complexity.
