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Balvenie 1961 55 Year (Cask #4193)

Single Malt

Balvenie // Speyside, Scotland

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The DCS Compendium series is a 25 bottle series with 5 bottles released annually beginning in 2015. This series celebrates the five decades Malt Master David Stewart has worked with the distillery and each collection has a theme. For Chapter 3 the theme is "Secrets of the Stock Model". According to The Balvenie, "This chapter is as much an explanation of the arcane decision-making processes of maturation and stock management as it is a personal memoir of David's life in whisky.

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" Chapter 3 was released in October 2017 and this bottling marks the oldest release from The Balvenie to date. Cask #4193 was a European oak oloroso sherry hogshead filled on June 14, 1961 and bottled June 12, 2017. Bottled at 41.7% ABV.

The DCS Compendium series is a 25 bottle series with 5 bottles released annually beginning in 2015. This series celebrates the five decades Malt Master David Stewart has worked with the distillery and each collection has a theme. For Chapter 3 the theme is "Secrets of the Stock Model". According to The Balvenie, "This chapter is as much an explanation of the arcane decision-making processes of maturation and stock management as it is a personal memoir of David's life in whisky." Chapter 3 was released in October 2017 and this bottling marks the oldest release from The Balvenie to date. Cask #4193 was a European oak oloroso sherry hogshead filled on June 14, 1961 and bottled June 12, 2017. Bottled at 41.7% ABV.

    • age
      55 Year
    • Cost
    • abv
      41.7
  • Single Malt
    Distilled in pot stills from 100% malted barley, produced at one distillery, aged in barrels; if Scotch or Irish, must be aged for at least three years.
  • Cask Type
    European oak oloroso sherry hogshead
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