Our love of the fine scotch from The Balvenie distillery knows no bounds, so word of their latest release is always welcome. In this case the spirit is called Tun 1509. Handcrafted by renowned Malt Master David Stewart, Tun 1509 was carefully hand-selected from 42 of Balvenie’s finest casks – 35 traditional American oak barrels and seven European oak sherry butts – which […]

Calling all distinguished tipplers — Speyside purveyors of handcrafted single-malt scotch whiskey The Balvenie is setting the 6th release of its rare 1401 Tun expression and it’s headed for The United States. The award-winning distillery in Dufftown, Scotland will release 2,500 bottles of this rare batch which is made of a mix of whisky matured […]

Recently the renowned Speyside distillery The Balvenie, announced the launch of the much anticipated sibling to its 12 year old DoubleWood. Like The Balvenie Fifty we posted last month, The Balvenie 17 Year Old DoubleWood was made in commemoration of the Balvenie Distillery‘s Malt Master David Stewart’s 50th anniversary. Stewart, Scotland’s longest serving malt master, crafted […]

One of our favorite large scotch distilleries, The Balvenie, is celebrating the dedication of half a century of work of David Stewart, now the longest tenured malt master in Scotland, with an expression aptly titled The Balvenie Fifty. Known farflung as the ‘Modest Man of Whisky’, Stewart first began interning at the Speyside distillery back […]

If you’re too cheap to buy the top shelf stuff, or too broke to afford an entire bottle of rare scotch, Drinks By The Dram‘s got something for you. While my idea of sample is most happily pronounced with the word “free” in front of it, I will never be too complainy about getting any […]

We were lucky enough to have scored entry to the recent kick off for The Balvenies Rare Craft Roadshow in NYC. As you may recall we’re quite fond of The Balvenie here at LIAS so having the opportunity to sample what may be the finest handcrafted scotch for the money was like finding cash in […]

I would really like to get my hands on The Balvenie’s latest release, a 14 year old whisky called Caribbean Cask. The single malt scotch is titled as such because after being aged in traditional whisky barrels for 14 years, it was transferred to rum barrels to finish. The Speyside distillery crafts some of the […]

If you read LIAS with any regularity you’ll know we’re kind of fanatics of The Balvenie single malt scotch. The Speyside distillery just makes some delicious affordable scotch, and their various special editions are equally exceptional (such as their Madeira Cask, 40 Year Old Single Malt Scotch and whatever wonderfulness resides in their Ambassador Case). […]